What terrorists gain, novelists lose.
why something and not nothing? why music and not noise?
Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.
In our world we sleep and eat the image and pray to it and wear it too.
I don't consider myself paranoid at all. I think I see things exactly as they are.
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.