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

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 read a lot of poetry. I read some history.

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.

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

I'm not a philosopher. I am the next thing to a jock, which is a novelist.