A person supporting [Donald]Trump likes Trump. And I think they would say the same about me.

The contours of the coming disaster expanded to include the deaths of all present.

I love the feeling of being on the hunt - the feeling that the story is refusing to be solved in some lesser way and is insisting that you see it on its highest terms.

I'm a big fan of the Russians: Isaac Babel is just an exquisite line-to-line stylist.

In art, and maybe just in general, the idea is to be able to be really comfortable with contradictory ideas. In other words, wisdom might be, seem to be, two contradictory ideas both expressed at their highest level and just let to sit in the same cage sort of, vibrating. So, I think as a writer, I'm really never sure of what I really believe.

That's one of the reasons I take a lot of consolation in fiction. You have years to work on it. I think that allows you to reach for the best part of your reader instead of a lot of the internet stuff, in which you're kind of reaching for the worst or the most shallow part of your reader.

The internet kind of feels like happiness sometimes, however. It feels like stimulation.