To portray America over the past twenty years or so, I would think immediately of football, probably the Super Bowl in its sumptuous suggestion of a national death wish.

I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.

Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.

I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.

Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live.

There is a set of balances and rhythms to a novel that we can't experience in real life. So I think there is a sense in which fiction can rescue history from confusion.

I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next.