I always want to read Gore Vidal's nonfiction. Because everything he writes is an essay and it's worth reading.

The people who make reality are angry peasants with old cannon shells wired together, an anti-vehicle device.

The best defense is a good story.

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

When I am writing a novel I try not to read great prose stylists into which I will fall.

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.

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