I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.

The house is a factory.

A funny thing happened on the way to utopia: We've turned into this surveillance society and become a race of spies, where we track our kids and we track our spouses and we track our friends. I think very soon there will be an obsolescence of trust, because it's much easier to access a person's location than it is to ask - or to trust.

We lose weeks like buttons, like pencils.

Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.

Nothing again. No one is listening. No one is waiting to hear the kicking of a man above. It is unexpected. You have no ears for someone like me.

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.