I feel I'm moving toward as well as away from something, and anything is possible.

I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.

No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.

I think the '80s created me, in a way, when I look back on that time, but I don't necessarily think that a lot of my choices, and a lot of things that I did, and a lot of things that happened to me - or I let happen to me - were about that decade.

I've been accused of being very vain about my apathy.

Unless you're the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don't have a lot of control.

Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time.