Time only moves in one direction. Remember that. Things always change.

We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the processing power of our brains.

For me, writing a novel is like solving a puzzle. But I don't intend my novels as puzzles. I intend them as invitations to dance.

Oftentimes I deliberately put ambiguity into my books so that... the reader is left with an echo of: 'How much of this was from me?'

When we aren't collectively imagining hopeful futures, then the way things are going almost invariably seems negative and frightening.

The anger is useful too because when things about the world upset you, that is really a fertile feeling to channel into fiction and to put out into books.

I think fiction allows you to inhabit new domains and it's you, the reader living in that domain for a few days that results in a deeper understanding as opposed to the novel proclaiming this is what it is right and this is what is wrong.