I love baseball. What I love about baseball is that you are always waiting.

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

My heroes are people like Philip Levine, who is simply like a god to me, as a writer. And he is a very good man, too.

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

It's hard to read real fiction. It takes time. It takes a sustained attention.

If there is some blood on the pages then you have some readership.

Oh, a bookshop. Why not pop in and buy a little Kant? And perhaps just a quarter-pound of Kafka. Don't bother to wrap it, thanks. I'll eat it here.