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

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

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

We can't write a serious novel in the 21st century without acknowledging the inescapable self-awareness we're stuck with. The idea we're surrounded by falsehoods and lies. It's hard for the thinking person to believe in narratives. And yet we want some place to invest our belief.

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

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

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