The future belongs to crowds.

It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.

I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.

In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.

In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.

There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.