I'm not the most famous guy in the world; my work is spread out across different mediums, and I never write the same kind of story and rarely even do the same character from one year to the next.
Watching familiar characters take unexpected turns is very appealing.
Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.
Stories are as unique as the people who tell them, and the best stories are in which the ending is a surprise.
I get interested in writers who are enigmatic.
I can't recall a story that played out exactly as I'd expected it to. That's one of the thrills of journalism - being surprised, and learning new stuff, but it also poses the biggest challenge to a writer's character.
New York is ultimately not the synthesis but merely the sum of its unfathomable subjectivities, its personal histories, its uncategorisable figures.
