…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.
I believe in plot, in development of character, in the effect of the passage of time, in a good story - better than something you might find in the newspaper. And I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it.
People regard art too highly, and history not enough
Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.
The lie, of course, is more interesting.
The main character and the most important character are not always the same person - you have to know the difference.