I think having a great range of experiences in my life had helped me as a writer, particularly a writer of fiction. I have known a great many different sorts of people in different situations, and I have a notion how very well of badly people can behave in times of stress or danger or violence.

If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.

Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment.

We live in a media soup and are constantly being programmed or are fighting that programming. Thus any truthful account of a life, every part of a life, is about society as well as an individual.

Everything you study, everything you learn, makes you a better writer, because you have more understanding of how things work.

The ruling class isn't dissatisfied: they are healthy, well-fed, live in beauty, enjoy their own importance: fun-loving cannibals.

Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.