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

I have a wonderful editor who believes in fiction and poetry. She herself is a novelist and poet.

Let's look at what the books are that are being produced. More and more they are being made like movies. To sell. They are being tested out.

Nonfiction, for the most part, is facts, and it's "how I was mistreated. I was mistreated. Were you mistreated? Weren't we all mistreated?"

In a way, I see my fiction as having moved in that direction - and the characters as dealing simultaneously with their personal history and with the present in which they are trying to make their way. So that the books are simultaneously about public and interior events. And I am having a great time getting confused and crazed writing about them.

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.

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.