I suppose in a way most of my characters are non-consumers, not terribly interested in all the little baubles and artifacts of contemporary life.

One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books.

I just noticed recently that in one book after another I seem to find an excuse to find some character who, to put it idiotically simply, is allowed to talk crazy.

I'm not planning what I listen to, except when I think the music can guide me to some emotional place I want to be reminded of.

When people call something "original," 9 out of 10 times they just don't know the references or original sources involved.

I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction.

I'm not too embarrassed to say I'm the definition of the target audience. This is my generation, the one of exalting music in album form.