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

There's some evidence that before events of mass trauma, even unpredictable ones, people begin to feel higher anxiety, often expressed in terms specific to the event.

Absurdity isn't quite so absurd as it once was.

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 idea that language can be recombined to create new forms, new things, is of course very old in poetry.

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