You, yesterday, did the usual things, just as any day, You don't know if it's worth remembering. You would prefer to remember, there lying in the half-darkness of the bedroom, not what has happened already but what is going to happen. In your half-darkness your eyes would prefer to look ahead, not behind, and they do not know how to foresee the past.

The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.

What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others.

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word.

What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.

Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.