Marshall McLuhan is absolutely right, we are always looking in the rear view mirror.

I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view.

I’m not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.

That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

I don't know why they are all so eager to be remembered. What good will it do them? There are some things that should be forgotten by everyone, and never spoken of again.

If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of identifying the author with the narrator, and you can't, obviously, be all of the narrators in all of your books, or else you'd be a very strange person indeed.