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

I think that I've always written about things that are very personal, but initially, I coded everything.

I'm happiest with people who've gotten furthest from traditional ideas of nationalism.

I think that I've always written about things that are very personal, but initially, I coded everything. I buried everything under layers and layers and layers of code, but the signifiers of my emotionality were there for me. I knew where the magnets were, behind the gyprock, and the magnets were very powerful. I think they had to be powerful for me, otherwise the reader wouldn't have a reciprocal experience.

To the extent that I can still believe in Bohemia, which I think is very important to me in some way that I don't yet really understand, to the extent that I still believe in that, I have to believe that there are viable degrees of freedom inherent if not realized in interstitial areas.

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.

The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly, and at great length.