Lost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky.

I've been interested in autism since I've known about it, which is more or less since I've been writing.

When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.

I'm very primitive in terms of economics. The kind of new business in which stock gets more valuable because the company grows, but there must be limits to growth. But if publishing is expanding to fill that retail space, it seems like there may be a necessary and unpleasant correction waiting down the road. How many books to people WANT?

I'm interested in people who become culturally fluent. And when I meet young people I'm often amazed they don't quite seem to have a sense of where they're from. They're like the citizens of the airport.

I realized that everyone in Western society, in some weird way, believes that they've had the experience of producing feature films.

I feel like I've been very fortunate in that I've stuck like a burr to the dog-leg of the next generation of nerdism. I've been carried into the XXIth century on Bill Gates' pants-cuff.