If differences can be hidden, perhaps they aren't differences at all.

I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.

The gun of the father is always the undoing of the son.

I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience.

If differences can be hidden, perhaps they aren't differences at all.

We're all united in this, that every human being migrates through time, that the place we grew up in in our childhood is gone when we're in our 50s and 60s and 70s.

NYC doesn't have a big sign saying "You must love diversity and the rights of all people." And that's not what makes you love diversity in NYC or anywhere. What makes you love diversity is because you live in it and you experience it.