I used to enjoy the anonymity of being a literary figure and occasionally a public radio figure.

I would definitely make eggs for the rest of my life if I could.

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

By the time I was writing the second book, my life had changed rather dramatically, thanks to the intervention of television, and I needed to find a way to discuss that. Otherwise the big, fake book would not be true on some level.

For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it actually unlocks a certain unconscious productivity vault in my mind.

So I am a product of the Internet, and to some degree a product of this sensibility of constant cultural reference.

I don't watch television. And certainly not ads; I loathe advertising.