We want to know that we're not alone with our loneliness or loss.

It's fiction's job to express how it feels to be living now, and it's a complex feeling, full of contradiction. To me it often feels like a brutal trivialization of reality.

I seem always to have two or three novels going at once. It takes me a long time to finish one.

Paranoia can be a sign of a sanity in some circumstances, in some places and times.

I just write what I want to read, and sometimes keeping it interesting means adding one more element that ends up adding another year to the work.

Trauma, and certain important experiences, can imprint on us at a genetic level.

The real past can traumatize us, but so can the real future.