I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing.

I had a list of things that science fiction, particularly American science fiction, to me seemed to do with tedious regularity. One was to not have strong female protagonists. One was to envision the future, whatever it was, as America.

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

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.

He took a duck in the face at 250 knots.

It was hot, the night we burned Chrome.

A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding.