If she’d been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem.

Time is our element, not a mistaken invader.

irony is a way of having one's cake while appearing to eat it.

Musicians are very mysterious and wonderful people to me; I don't know how they do it.

Being on TV is like being alive, only more so.

All men are mortal, and therefore all men are losers; our profoundest loyalty goes out to the failed.

I think people do look to writers to tell the truth in a way that nobody else quite will, not politicians or ministers or sociologists. A writer's job, is to, by way of fiction, somehow describe the way we live. And to me, this seems an important task, very worth doing, and I think also, to the reading public, it seems, even though they might not articulate it, it seems to them something worth doing also.