Nothing got inside the head without becoming pictures.

The figure of my father looms large in my imagination.

Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance

For every reader who dies today, a viewer is born, and we seem to be witnessing . . . the final tipping balance.

Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. And what the Internet brings is lots of vulgar data. It is the antithesis of the imagination. It leaves nothing to the imagination.

Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan.

I admire your capacity for admiring.