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

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

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

I like living in Vancouver .It's more a matter of being a Vancouver loyalist. Harking back to what I said about growing up with the inherent violence in the southern U.S., I'm deeply enamoured of, and entirely used to living in a society with gun laws akin to those of a Scandinavian social democracy .It's a good thing.

I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists.

His teeth sang in their individual sockets like tuning forks, each one pitch-perfect and clear as ethanol.

The street has its own use for things.