I buried everything under layers and layers and layers of code, but the signifiers of my emotionality were there, for me.

I've always assumed from the beginning that I had relatively few contemporaries among my readership. Not that I was consciously writing for a younger audience but that what I was doing interested a younger audience, or at least threatened them less.

I don't always like writing, but I very much like having written.

A book exists at the intersection of the author's subconscious and the reader's response.

This perpetual toggling between nothing being new, under the sun, and everything having very recently changed, absolutely, is perhaps the central driving tension of my work.

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

I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity.