I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction.

To write has to be related to a drive inside.

I'm a dilettante by temperament. I don't have any expectation.

I spotted a can in the corner whose red label read SADNESS. Was there so much of it they could can it and sell it? A bolt of pain went through my intestines before I realized that it was not SADNESS but SARDINES.

I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability — the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.

The beauty of literature - also its limit - is that it is inescapably personal, even if you're writing science fiction.

If I represent the world as it is as harmonious, that's a political position.