What Fiction And Art Can Do, Particularly

The Mind Is Complicated And You Can't Trace The Roots Of Its Processes, But There Is Something About Mathematical And Algorithmic Patterns That I Like To Recognize In Things.

We Knew - But Didn't Want To Know - What Was Going To Happen, The Sky Descending Upon Our Heads Like The Shadow Of A Falling Piano In A Cartoon.

I Think About The Story While I Think About Other Things. This Is An Important Part Of The Process: I Look At It Sideways. If I Look Straight At It, It Produces Nothing Other Than What Seem Like Complicated, Brilliant Designs That Fall Apart The Following Morning. In Some Way Stories Mature When You're Not Looking.

I Wish I Could Avoid The People Who Have Threatened Me. My Favorite Threat Is That I Will Be Thrown In The River Miljacka, Which Is At Most Knee-deep, With My Feet Bound In Cement.

I Don't Like Having A Teaching Job - Office Hours And Conferences And Committees And Bosses And All That - But I Tend To Enjoy Teaching, And I Design The Course In Such A Way That There'll Be Pleasure In That.