“All novels are sequels; influence is bliss.”

“Life is a great novel, discovering your calling is the far better sequel”

“All literature, highbrow or low, from the Aeneid onward, is fan fiction....Through parody and pastiche, allusion and homage, retelling and reimagining the stories that were told before us and that we have come of age loving--amateurs--we proceed, seeking out the blank places in the map that our favorite writers, in their greatness and negligence, have left for us, hoping to pass on to our own readers--should we be lucky enough to find any--some of the pleasure that we ourselves have taken in the stuff that we love: to get in on the game. All novels are sequels; influence is bliss.”

“I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day.”

“A brave new future had been charted, and none of them knew where it was going to lead.From my upcoming novel,Frontiers, the sequel to Cybersp@ce and the second in the trilogy.”

“Every beginning, after all, is nothing but a sequel, and the book of events is always open in the middle.”