There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

Naturally a direct comparison of terrorist and novelist is complete nonsense. But there was once a time when the novelist also had some influence on how his contemporaries thought, the way they saw the world, the way they lived.

Coming and going I am leaving. I will go and come. Leaving has come to me. We all, shall all, will all be left. Because I am here and where. And I will go or not or never. And I have seen what I will see. If I am where I will be. Because nothing comes between me.

Everyone who does not live in Berlin lives in Brooklyn now.

The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements.

I don't consider myself paranoid at all. I think I see things exactly as they are.

We don't really know how technology will affect narrative. That's the question. See, people used to say that the novel is going to die, but they would never say that movies will die with it, when in fact all forms depend on the narrative. I think if one of them fails, the others are going to fail as well. Maybe this will happen to both forms, and maybe movies will take a totally different direction with fiction.