The culture is with some rapidity fearing its imagination. I don't know why. Imagination is not of interest.

What I try to do is read stuff that won't deal with the dangerous dark things I hope I am writing about.

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

You have to read history. You have to have a sense of history.

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

Stephen King has the exact ability that Charles Dickens had. To get to his readers in spite of or despite anything the reviews say.

I don't think the world is particularly responsive to - our world, the culture we are in, to art right now.