I'm a dogged person. I respond to adversity with a steely resistance.

I guess in my own life, privacy, anonymity, and the mystery of being lost are important. I also feel that people are mysterious and complex no matter what they do, and no matter how hard they try to reveal their own mystery.

Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.

It's finished. Everything went past, without me.

The music industry is an interesting lens through which to look at change, because it has had such a difficult time adjusting to the digital age.

Real computers scared me; if you can find Them, then They can find you.

happened as I listened: I felt pain. Not in my head, not in my arm, not in my leg; everywhere at once. I told myself there was no difference between being “inside” and being “outside,” that it all came down to X’s and O’s that could be acquired in any number of different ways, but the pain increased to a point where I thought I might collapse, and I limped away.