Trauma, and certain important experiences, can imprint on us at a genetic level.

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.

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

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

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

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