My writing life is pretty simple - I try to work every day, almost always in the mornings - and I can only write fiction effectively for about three or at the most four hours. No big mysteries, I just sit down and try to advance the cause a little bit every day.

what exactly is postmodernism, except modernism without the anxiety?

For those whose ganglia were formed pre-TV, the mimetic deployment of pop-culture icons seems at best an annoying tic and at worst a dangerous vapidity that compromises fiction's seriousness by dating it out of the Platonic Always, where it ought to reside.

You can't be deep without a surface

Some people have things written all over their faces; the big guy had a couple of words misspelled in crayon on his.

My heart, to put it more simply, got nostalgic for the present. Always a bad sign.

I guess they needed a maze in Japan, where everything's neat and tidy. In America everybody's already wandering around lost.