I find it a huge strain to be responsible for my tastes and be known and defined by them.

We may freak out globally, but we suffer locally.

It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.

The figure of my father looms large in my imagination.

Good novels are produced by people who voluntarily isolate themselves and go deep, and report from the depths on what they find.

If multiculturalism succeeds in making us a nation of independently empowered tribes, each tribe will be deprived of the comfort of victimhood and be forced to confront human limitation for what it is: a fixture of life.

It offended his sense of himself, because he was an individual from an age of individuals, and a string of lights was, like him, an individual thing. No matter how little the thing had cost, to throw it away was to deny its value.