I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

Every advance in knowledge and technique is matched by a new kind of death, a new strain. Death adapts, like a viral agent.

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

The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream.

He wanted paper and something to write with, some way to sustain a thought, to place it in the world.

Not long ago, a novelist could believe he could have an effect on our consciousness of terror. Today, the men who shape and inflence human consciousness are the terrorists.

The future belongs to crowds.