There's something about the rhythms of language that correspond to the rhythms of our own bodies.

I want to write books that can be read a hundred years from now, and readers wouldn't be bogged down by irrelevant details.

I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again... The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there.

I met someone who lives in an elevator.

Yes! I'm the slowest comic-book writer on Earth.

Novelists get to direct the perfect films. We get to cast every part. We dress the set exactly as we wish.

It's impossible to overstate how my relationship to music forms a preserve for the esoteric or even spiritual aspect of my relationship to cultural stuff, to human expressivity... it's a safe enclosure.