All fiction is lies – if it weren’t, it would be biography, history, or reportage.

The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.

If it's not American, the French won't go see it.

I was a precocious reader.

Is anything accidental?

English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market.

I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces.