My job is not to try to give readers what they want but to try to make readers want what I give.

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

My Google-fu is strong.

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.

Remember the movements that don't look like moving.

Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.

Perhaps the window is not a sun but an asterisk, interrupting the grammar of the sky, with me sitting below it like a footnote.