Kraken' is a very undisciplined book. That's a gamble. If it doesn't come off, it's disastrous. But there are pleasures, I think, to a meandering lack of discipline that you can't get the other way, and vice versa.

I have danced with the spider. I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god.

A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.

Everything has changed. I cannot be used anymore. Those days are over. I know too much. What I do now, I do for me.

I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.

I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice.

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.