The thing about Republicans is that they don't care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others.

I had spent years thinking about one thing while I was doing another. I had, in fact, prided myself on being able to do two things at once.

Eavesdrop and write it down from memory - gives you a stronger sense of how people talk and what their concerns are. I love to eavesdrop!

'Ape House' is an ambitious novel in several ways, for which it is to be admired, and it is certainly an easy read, but because Gruen is not quite prepared for the philosophical implications of her subject, it is not as deeply involving emotionally or as interesting thematically as it could be.

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

There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s, and one of his most famous buildings, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, was completed just before his death. Wright buildings look like Wright buildings - that is their paradox.

The desire to write a novel is the single required prerequisite for writing a novel.