I'm A Very Friendly Socialist.

Fantasy And Science Fiction Can Be Literal As Well As Allegorical And There’s Nothing Wrong With Enjoying A Monster Like A Giant Squid For What It Is, As Well As Searching For Metaphor.

A Scholar Can Never Let Mere Wrongness Get In The Way Of The Theory.

In Every Book I Write, I Try To Name-check The Most Prominent Influences, Or The Most Prominent Conscious Influences.

There Are Only So Many Ways To Experience Pain. There Are An Almost Limitless Number Of Ways To Inflict It, But The Pain Itself, Initially Vividly Distinct In All Its Specifications, Becomes, Inevitably, Just Pain.

Perhaps The Window Is Not A Sun But An Asterisk, Interrupting The Grammar Of The Sky, With Me Sitting Below It Like A Footnote.