I think that anyone who grew up reading and being taught the Bible, as I did, can't help but have their prose shaped by it later in life. I still hav….

And knowing that the only alternative to your grief is the nothingness that’s fast approaching, you try to embrace your own sorrow, to be open and em….

I think of this a lot in the terms of books. Of course there's a big to-do culturally about e-books versus print books, sales models. The paradigm ha….

Your life has more blue in it than a James Cameron movie..

You could not be more correct. It does matter. All of it..

Love, in its purest form, is biology..

Singularity theory is something that I do believe will come to pass, sooner or later, although whether or not in our lifetime I don't know, and I'm n….

You wish they understood, as you do, that there is no escape and never was, that from the moment two cells combined to become one they were doomed. Y….

Sometimes we make assumptions about influence when similarities between two writers' work are so strong, but they're still just assumptions. Some thi….

Most of my writing is an effort, one way or another, to figure something out about myself, and often when I read dialogue between my characters I rec….

But the thing is, from the perspective of a novelist there is a brand of lying that feels more honest than the actual facts of an event. Lying as a w….

Partying means drinking. It also means playing records by Lou Reed and Chicago, which I thought was a city but is also a band it turns out..

Regardless of whether you believe in the Singularity, you will most likely experience the benefits of it. But we don't really know..

A lot of the despair we feel watching the news every day flows from our sense of helplessness, and as a fiction writer you get to control things, if ….

I tend toward the pessimistic end of the spectrum, and unfortunately there's little in human history to convince me that pessimism is unwarranted..

The urge to move is natural and understandable. As will be the case throughout your life, no matter how long or brief, the choice is, in the end, you….

We're not cognitively equipped to deal with it. And it's becoming a problem, frankly. It's part of the reason why I quit Facebook. We all hear these ….

Whenever someone asks me craft questions like that I feel like I can give one of two answers. I can give the academy answer and say that it was very ….

When you're a child - and my understanding of it is very basic - but when you're a very young child, the stimuli around you prompt your brain to form….

I wonder if kids growing up now are actually going to have that - if they're ever going to be able to unplug and have that ability to concentrate, or….