We don't consider the roles that we're taking in making the world the way it is..

Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind..

Only keep still, wait, and hear, and the world will open..

I don't mind arguing with myself. It's when I lose that it bothers me..

Reading is the last act of secular prayer..

What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states..

The web: yet another total disorientation that becomes status quo without anyone realizing it..

I like to travel and connect..

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 cen….

The job of taste was to thin the insane torrent of human creativity down to manageable levels. But the job of appetite was never to be happy with tas….

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 trave….

I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects..

Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time. A century of family sa….

Music forecasts the past, recalls the future. Now and then the difference falls away, and in one simple gift of circling sound, the ear solves the sc….

Maybe happiness is like a virus. Maybe it's one of those bugs that sits for a long time, so we don't even know that we are infected..

When you're sure of what you're looking at, look harder..

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….

The use of music is to remind us how short a time we have a body..

The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream..

Type a few lines of code, you create an organism..

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