If you have information you've got the world by the balls. But we have to convert information into knowledge in order to make it humanly useful.

In some way there is no real life. It's always the story of your life that you're living.

I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation.

I'll take any life in which I can make choices and have agency, and America is not a bad place for all that.

Cliché activates the comfortable mental laziness, we sort of revert to the domain of the already-familiar, what we have already imagined so that it doesn't seem that bad.

If I represent the world as it is as harmonious, that's a political position.

It's difficult for me to understand how it was possible to live under the Bush regime for eight years and then just roll over and do other things.