What you see is not what we see. What you see is distracted by memory, by being who you are, all this time, for all these years.

The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation.

America can be saved only by what it's trying to destroy.

It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.

I didn’t do anything. I don’t have an explanation, I don’t know why I wanted to write. I did some short stories at that time, but very infrequently. I quit my job just to quit. I didn’t quit my job to write fiction. I just didn’t want to work anymore

Look past the violence. There is a wonderful brimming spirit of innocence and fun.

I've never made an outline for any novel that I've written. Never.