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

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

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

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.

We're getting used to reality and fantasy passing into each other. Much of the border between them has been erased.

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