We're outsiders, and so when we walk through the city, we're there and not there at the same time, participating and observing simultaneously.

For one reason or another, I became a passionate reader when I was very little. As soon as I could read, I wanted to read.

Just the fact that Hilary Clinton won the popular vote by such a large number gives some validation to the impulse to stand firm. If we don't, I think within a year administration is pretty much going to dismantle American society as we've known it. I'm not sure that we're able to stop it from happening, but I don't think people should just roll over and passively watch it happen.

Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick with it.

In a sense I am able to interrogate myself, address myself from that slight distance and enter a kind of dialogical relationship with myself. Because I'm saying, "Look, these are things that have happened to me, but how odd they are or how ordinary they are [is up to the reader to decide]."

The story is not in the words; it's in the struggle.

He would conclude that nothing was real except chance.