If the world is where we hide from ourselves, what do we do when the world is no longer accessible? We invent a false name, invent a destiny, purchase a firearm through the mail.

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.

Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.

Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.

There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.

That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease.