Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.

To be a tourist is to escape accountability.

Look past the violence. There is a wonderful brimming spirit of innocence and fun.

Freud is finished, Einstein's next.

I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.

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

It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know.