Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.

Satire always benefits when evil and stupidity collide.

In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great.

The only way to write about right now is to write about the future.

I love librarians more than any other people in the world. When I was an immigrant kid, they’ve made me feel like a human being and they gave me books that taught me English.

My first book really did change my life. It allowed me to fully express myself. There was a sense that I was worth something as an artist.

Reading is difficult. People just aren't meant to read anymore. We're in a post-literate age. You know, a visual age. How many years after the fall of Rome did it take for a Dante to appear? Many, many years.