I only go to Japan when there's someone who can afford to bring me there, and consequently I may never go again!

The Internet is part of this ongoing, species-long project we've been working on since we climbed down out of the trees in the savanna. We've been working on it without really knowing it.

The street has its own use for things.

I have this prejudice that trilogies are long, three-volume novels.

The deadliest bullshit is odorless, and transparent.

I assume that - because you can get degrees in journalism from very reputable universities - I assume that people can be trained to be journalists. I've never been entirely certain that anyone can be trained to be a novelist in the same way.

To the very limited extent that I have a political consciousness, to some extent I'm a lazy, apolitical sort of guy that just flits around.