I'm used to rereading e-mails, even, before sending them - a bit compulsive. So this is high speed roller coaster for me!

I would recommend, definitely, developing a 'day job' that you like - don't expect to make money writing!

I don't pare down much. I write the beginning of a story in a notebook and it comes out very close to what it will be in the end. There is not much deliberateness about it.

I don't feel I have to struggle against allegory. I let the readers do the interpreting.

There is something very pleasing about the principles of science and the rules of math, because they are so inevitable and so harmonious - in the abstract, anyway.

My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them.

If you think of something, do it. Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.