In cities no one notices specific dying. Dying is a quality of the air. It's everywhere and nowhere.

The world isn't going to be destroyed, but you don't feel safe anymore in your plane or train or office or auditorium.

I don't consider myself paranoid at all. I think I see things exactly as they are.

Dying was just an extended version of Ash Wednesday.

Technology and violence are interdependent.

If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.

In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending. So for much of the period in which I'm writing, I'm waiting to understand what's going to happen next, and how and where it's going to happen. In some cases, fairly early in the process, I do know how a book will end. But most of the time, not at all, and in this particular case, many questions are still unanswered, even though I've been working for months.