It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there.

Even when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others.

In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending.

holes are interesting. there are books about holes.

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.

True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to.

We live in an age of rapid mass media, television, Internet. They determine our tempo, not books.