Occasionally if I look back at something I've written I'll find one of those that I don't understand, but that's a bad thing - the unconscious has dealt me a bad hand.

The future's here already. It's just unevenly distributed.

[The currency of being celebrity] used to be only the elect had any manna in the information society and everyone else was a consumer.

I'm a really good eavesdropper. I listen to what people say and remember all the buzzwords.

When I was first writing about Japan, it was at the peak of the Bubble. Bubble popped, but they kept on going. Japanese street style feeds American iconics back into America in somewhat the way English rock once fed American blues back into America.

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

If I were in severely straitened socio-economic circumstances and had to move to the U.S., I'd probably opt for Athens, GA, or Lawrence, KS. As boho guys usually do, live cheap in the Left Bank of Kansas.