As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive.

I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it.

Being called a 'bad citizen' is a compliment to a novelist, at least to my mind. That's exactly what we ought to do.

There are times when you want to stop working at faith and just be washed in a blowing wind that tells you everything.

In our world we sleep and eat the image and pray to it and wear it too.

There came a time in every prolonged effort when he had a moment of near panic, or 'terror in a lonely place', the original semantic content of the word. The lonely place was his own mind.

Perhaps we've invented conspiracies for our own psychic well-being, to heal ourselves.