One of the profound effects of economics in our day is that the people with the money and the power have embraced the guilt-free, external-less, everything-will-turn-out-okay-in-the-end philosophy of economics in order to justify their own evil works. And the economists, for the most part, have sucked up to that money.

Candy is my fuel. Ice cream, too.

I'm a natural novelist. I'm interested in the person and the group, and how they mesh. And one of the ways I don't want them to mesh is for the person to be subsumed into the group.

With preference came point of view; with point of view, personality; with personality, uniqueness; with uniqueness, grief.

A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.

a bookstore is one of the few places where all the cantankerous, conflicting, alluring voices of the world co-exist in peace and order and the avid reader is as free as a person can possibly be, because she is free to choose among them.

Men are competent in groups that mimic the playground, incompetent in groups that mimic the family