I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop.

Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity

I want to change something. I want to stop the germs from attacking my daughters.

Where can you go from nowhere, except deeper into nowhere?

I know a lot of people in the city, at all levels, horizontally and vertically - and that to me is a privilege, to me as a person but also a writer. I've dined with billionaires, and I play soccer with busboys.

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.

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