Cyberspace is where you are when you're on the telephone.

I think science fiction gives us a wonderful toolkit to disassemble and reexamine this kind of incomprehensible, constantly changing present that we live in, that we often live in quite uncomfortably.

A lot of the buildings [in Toronto] around Yonge and Bloor is the architectural equivalent of Kipper Ties and 8" collar points. It's ghastly and no amount of street-level retail glitz can lift it.

I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it.

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.

He took a duck in the face at 250 knots.

You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work.