Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously.

My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible.

I've had presidents in my lifetime - and I'm old enough to have seen several - that I really detested, but they're still my president. I've had presidents that I've really liked.

'Bossy' is someone who bosses people around without reason.

There are a lot of people I would have liked to have collaborated with, and would still like to.

A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time.