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

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

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

I like a great degree of compression. I like to mix lateral steps with forward ones. I don't want the prose ever to feel simply functional - at least not for any stretch.

We want to know that we're not alone with our loneliness or loss.

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

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