I went to Saudi Arabia in 2010, and spent most of my time in Jeddah and the King Abdullah Economic City.

He was feeling buoyant, flexible. He wanted to go jogging. He stood. He couldn't go jogging. He called room service and ordered a basket of breads and pastries.

She felt some measure of relief knowing that in the very least, on the open road she would have some time to think.

We have advantages. We have a cushion to fall back on. This is abundance. A luxury of place and time. Something rare and wonderful. It's almost historically unprecedented. We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.

I've always been interested in the form itself, so I always feel like I've never been good at going ahead with the artifice and not acknowledging the self in the artistic process, and not acknowledging the absurdity of pretending that's required in fiction.

I had the sensation that I might always be running like this, that I would always have to run, and that I would always be able to run.

When you adapt a book, you really have to cut it to the essence.