You used to be able to tell a person's nationality by the face. Immigration ended that. Next you discerned nationality via the footwear. Globalization ended that.

Chunks of his life fell away, so that while we were moving ahead in time, he was moving back.

The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars.

Detroit's a great music town. If your interaction with it was mainly musical, I'm sure you have a good opinion of the place.

I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will.

But that was in the days when they expected perils to come from without, and nothing made less sense by that time than a survival room buried in a house itself becoming one big coffin.

Basically you come up with the fictional idea and you start writing that story, but then in order to write it and to make it seem real, you sometimes put your own memories in. Even if it's a character that's very different from you.