I wanted us to share the sense that the number of wrong moves far exceeds the number of good moves, to share the frightening instability of the correct decision, to bond in being confounded.

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.

People will always tell stories. The publishing industry might vanish, but not stories.

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

To write has to be related to a drive inside.

Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.

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