I hate reading digital books. I don't enjoy the experience. I like smelling the paper, turning the pages. I think the book as we've always known it is an efficient technology.

I never would have thought of that word, "hospitality." I settle into the rhythm of my steps.

There are often references to childhood, but they're rarely the focus of the [my] novels.

I've learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious.

I think that sense of unreality inspired me to write the story within the book that [August] Brill tells himself, one of the stories he tells himself.

I guess of all those novels, Don DeLillo's Falling Man is the one I like the best. I thought there were some beautiful things in that, particularly the relationship between the man who finds the briefcase and the woman whose husband owned the briefcase. It's quite a beautiful passage.

The real is always way ahead of what we can imagine.