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.

In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than I had wished, but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known.

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

The main thing about the novel that is totally fascinating: It's not possessed by the writer; it's possessed by the reader.

Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one.

I don't know - is everything the U.S. does a shocking embarrassment?

If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions about horses are all the more so, since horses are more mysterious than life and harder to understand.