I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.

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.

One connection I see between novelists and terrorists is that we both attempt to alter consciousness.

Because friends have to be brutally honest with each other. I'd feel terrible if I didn't tell you what I was thinking, especially at a time like this

Off-camera lives are unverifiable.

One of my earliest memories as a reader - I don't know how old I was, quite young - was a poem of his, called "Fog," and I remember the first verse, "The fog comes / on little cat feet".

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