I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.
The days are stacked against what we think we are.
That's my only defense against this world: to build a sentence out of it.
The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion.
I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that.
Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become legends.