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

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.

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.

Toronto is hard to capture in a few strokes.

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.

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