When I write my novels, I'm not writing them to make political points. I'm writing them because I passionately love monsters and the weird and horror stories and strange situations and surrealism, and what I want to do is communicate that. But, because I come at this with a political perspective, the world that I'm creating is embedded with many of the concerns that I have. But I never let them get in the way of the monsters.

But I do think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books.

Any moment called NOW is always full of possibles.

I'll never be a minimalist. The fact that the prose is more tightly controlled doesn't for a minute mean that it's minimalist. I very much like arcane words and baroque sentence structure.

So long as it fated, fate didn't care what it fated.

Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.

I differ with myself then agree, like the rock that was broken and cemented together. I change my opinion.