There is travel and there are babies; everything else is drudgery and death.

Writing is a deep-sea dive. You need hours just to get into it: down, down, down. If you're called back to the surface every couple of minutes by an email, you can't ever get back down. I have a great friend who became a Twitterer and he says he hasn't written anything for a year.

Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation.

I don't mean to beat a made-in-America drum, but I would be lying if I said it doesn't feel somehow right to be printing books in the U.S.

It's so easy to print in the Midwest. You're saving months in shipping and customs, so we have started printing a number of books there.

I see colors like you hear jet planes.

Good artists exist in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.