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

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

I seem always to have two or three novels going at once. It takes me a long time to finish one.

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

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

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

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.