I work with wood a lot. I like building. I think of building. I would love to buy land on some water somewhere and build a house. That'd be nice.

I think fiction is about small ambition, small failed ambition.

You have to be smart enough to see the world for yourself and honest. The whole book-publicity thing is not really honest, at base.

Writing a book is like an unknown abyss, every time. Every book is different. Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible to have a book out.

Art is so personal. I'm very comforted by the fact that certain movies that I love, other people hate. Certain books that I love, other people hate. You can't please everybody.

I've written five books, a book every three years. I'm fairly lazy and it doesn't take that much...people who are not lazy are Isaac Asimov.

To have too much time is not good, you have to force yourself. And human beings aren't meant for true freedom. I've learned that, having had it.