Evil Is The Refusal To See One's

I Think That If The Novel's Task Is To Describe Where We Find Ourselves And How We Live Now, The Novelist Must Take A Good, Hard Look At The Most Central Facts Of Contemporary Life - Technology And Science.

If You're Going To Immerse Yourself In A Project For Three Years, Why Not Stake Out A Chunk Of The World That Is Completely Alien To You And Go Traveling?

My Dream Has Always Been To Suspend Myself In Space When I Write, And Lying Horizontal In Bed Is The Closest To Doing That.

The 'information Novel' Shouldn't Be A Curiosity. It Should Be Absolutely Mainstream.

Science Is Not About Control. It Is About Cultivating A Perpetual Condition Of Wonder In The Face Of Something That Forever Grows One Step Richer And Subtler Than Our Latest Theory About It. It Is About Reverence, Not Mastery.