I'm not even sure if empathy is an act, it could be a disposition.

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.

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

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

I'm not even sure if empathy is an act, it could be a disposition.

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.

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