If any art form can accommodate contemporary culture, it's the novel. It's so malleable - it can incorporate essays, poetry, film. Maybe the challenge for the novelist is to stretch his art and his language, to the point where it can finally describe what's happening around him.

I don't consider myself paranoid at all. I think I see things exactly as they are.

Maybe when we die, the first thing we'll say is 'I know this feeling. I was here before'.

In a crisis the true facts are whatever other people say they are.

I've always felt that my subject was living in dangerous times.

These are the days after. Everything now is measured by after.

You live in a tower that soars to heaven and goes unpunished by God.