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

If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.

The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel.

It’s trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it’s wrong to think that this means... there is some kind of uniform world culture.

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.

Chaos is the enemy of Order but the enemy of Chaos is also the enemy of Order

There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have.