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

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

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

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

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

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

The idea that language can be recombined to create new forms, new things, is of course very old in poetry.