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

Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and so design had given way to expediency.

You can tell when something's not moving forward anymore. When the doubts you have about it don't go away.

It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.

I always work in a room where there's no Internet to keep from being distracted so easily.

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

I have a lot of novels that I haven't finished. I usually get 150 pages in and I realize it's not going anywhere. I don't publish everything I write. I must have six unfinished novels at least.