There were moments when she wasn't talking so much as fading into time, dropping back into some funnelled stretch of recent past.

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

Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.

The difference between the world of pictures and the world of printed matter is extraordinary and hard to define. A picture is like the masses: a multitude of impressions. A book on the other hand, with its linear advance of words and characters seems to be connected to individual identity.

Do people still shoot at presidents? I thought there were more stimulating targets.' (20)

Digital clocks took the 'space' out of time.

It's impossible to write about the Kennedy assassination and its aftermath without taking note of twenty-five years of paranoia which has collected around that event.