I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor.

I begin with an image of some sort, just as if you saw something out of a window, and then went to the window to see what it was.

Sunday was always the best of days for being the self you had intended to be, but were not, for one reason or another.

The books turn out to be about things afterwards. I don't go into them with concepts, for the most part.

I'm confused, and brilliant books help me to be less so.

I have a different purpose in writing each novel. Some of them seem more similar than others, but the purposes are always different.

Americans are genuinely and profoundly anti-intellectual. They are especially so in their pleasure-seeking, which is epically banal.