I see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfilment in America.

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.

It occurred to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.

He speaks in your voice, American, and there's a shine in his eye that's halfway hopeful.

Terror is now the world narrative, unquestionably. When those two buildings were struck, and when they collapsed, it was, in effect, an extraordinary blow to consciousness, and it changed everything.

Was she naked?" Lasher said. "To the waist," Cotsakis said. "From which direction?" Lasher said.

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