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.
The real past can traumatize us, but so can the real future.
Absurdity isn't quite so absurd as it once was.
Paranoia can be a sign of a sanity in some circumstances, in some places and times.