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

- Michael Helm

We want to know that we're not alone with our loneliness or loss.

- Michael Helm

Trauma, and certain important experiences, can imprint on us at a genetic level.

- Michael Helm

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

- Michael Helm

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

- Michael Helm

We can't write a serious novel in the 21st century without acknowledging the inescapable self-awareness we're stuck with. The idea we're surrounded b…

- Michael Helm

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

- Michael Helm

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

- Michael Helm

Absurdity isn't quite so absurd as it once was.

- Michael Helm