Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link.

I think my work is influenced by the fact that we're living in dangerous times. If I could put it in a sentence, in fact, my work is about just that: living in dangerous times.

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

[I]n the American soul there is a lonely individual standing in a vast landscape. 
He is either on a horse or driving a car, depending, and either way he’s carrying a gun. 
This is one of the essential images in American mythology.

War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.

There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.

Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping.