If you can't go home, there is nowhere to go, and nowhere is the biggest place in the world-indeed, nowhere is the world.

What you demand from storytelling is a moral - even political - import. I tend to shun that didactic aspect.

I actually didn't listen to the Beatles song 'Nowhere Man' when I was writing my book of the same name. What I listened to a lot was 'Abbey Road.' Its disjointedness and its readiness to confuse only to delight were inspiring to me.

Your nightmares follow you like a shadow, forever.

Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.

Arabs are a complete abstraction in the propaganda world and all the death and destruction is completely unreal to Americans.

I've never meditated for a moment in my life. I don't know how it works. But one of the things you have to do to put yourself in the meditating mode is stop narrating yourself to yourself.