Well, I always had this desire to celebrate and somehow be a part of things that I thought were really great.

All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports.

A literary agent is nothing but a cheap salesman (or woman); while a writer is a cheap salesman (or woman) who also has to actually write the books.

Americans don't need a metaphor for war. We have war. If anything, we use war as a metaphor for sports.

You know the old saying: "History is written by the winners. And also, the team of hand-picked historians that the winner keeps hidden away in an underground bunker".

Specificity is the soul of narrative.

My biggest superhero of writing is Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine fabulist. He's an amazingly perceptive writer, but also willing to make a joke.