When my head is in the typewriter the last thing on my mind is some imaginary reader. I don't have an audience; I have a set of standards.

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

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

Prayer is a practical strategy, the gaining of temporal advantage in the capital markets of Sin and Remission.

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

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

It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.