You can forget who you are if you're alone too much.

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer, an almost physical nerve, the kind you need to walk a log across a river.

In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys.

The astrologers would tell that the U.S. is ruled by fire and Canada is ruled by water. Short version: You pep us up, we cool you down.

I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just a long narrative form. What you use that long narrative form for can be very different.

I particularly like Twitter, because it's short and can be very funny and informative. It's a little bit like having your own radio program.

The biggest debt is always the government debt; it's always debt that government has run up on your behalf.