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

What to know about pain is how little we do to deserve it, how simple it is to give, how hard to lose.

Baseball is a game where you are always waiting, and then when something happens it's like turning a kaleidoscope when you were a kid.

History is beautiful stories or scary stories, yeah.

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

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

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.