Being called a 'bad citizen' is a compliment to a novelist, at least to my mind. That's exactly what we ought to do.

A writer decides to follow some ideas and not others for reasons that aren't always clear to him. It's often a matter of intuition.

And what's the point of waking up in the morning if you don't try to match the enormousness of the known forces in the world with something powerful in your own life?

The less important you are in an office, the more they expect the happy smile.

Your brain has a trillion neurons and every neuron has ten thousand little dendrites. The system of inter-communication is awe-inspiring.

We commit our crimes at night and reveal ourselves in the high noon of studio lights.

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.