Even though I wanted to experience all these things I was interested in, I couldn't get them. So I had to think critically and culturally about what was available.

The amount of response I get, in both a negative and a positive context, is completely related to the amount of books I sell, I think. It seems to have nothing to do with what I'm writing, but what degree of success I'm perceived to have.

That's like comparing apples with hermaphroditic ground sloths.

Every generation is more influenced by technology, which is always changing faster.

It's peculiar what you remember when you're not trying.

I grew up on a farm, and we didn't have cable and only limited radio stations, so I wasn't inundated with culture the way people in other parts of the country were. But I was really interested in it.

People who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they’d never admit in normal conversation.