The best defense is a good story.

It's harder to get hold of the world. It's harder to understand the world, to encompass the literature necessary for the information.

I love thrillers. I would even read certain science fiction, although I haven't been a devotee for many years.

I read a lot of poetry. I read some history.

I don't think I want to write a third book. But the more people talk to me about it, the more I think maybe I do.

I enjoy going to campuses and reading and doing a class or teaching and then running away and not having to grade papers.

Nonfiction, for the most part, is facts, and it's "how I was mistreated. I was mistreated. Were you mistreated? Weren't we all mistreated?"