The incessant perpetuation of collective fantasies makes people crave the truth and nothing but the truth - reality is the fastest American commodity.

I think it's interesting, from a creative point of view, to have witnessed the loss of consciousness on a national level and on a cultural level - Bush had 91 percent support in the polls after 9/11. We wanted to kick some ass!

You devise ways to tell a story that complies with your sensibility. Style and method are really extensions of your present sensibility.

I don't think that everyone should have a philosophical answer to any given question. There are things that need to be done.

I cannot think of a country in which I would be happy with the government and dominant ideology and available propaganda.

I believe people are much more complicated than they can handle.

I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise.