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

Science is claiming ever more ground from popular stories of the kind we thought we weren't to believe in.

Many of the concepts we once thought belonged to speculation or science fiction are now part of our understood reality.

I love poetry, read it a lot, but make no claim to being able to write it.

Novels seem to exist because of this need to know and connect, and so story becomes charged with necessity.

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

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.