I'm dyslexic. If you can reconcile yourself to not being able to burn through books, which you shouldn't any way, you can slow the whole process down. Then, because of my disability, there is more for me in imaginative literature than there is for other people.

When people realize they are being listened to, they tell you things.

At heart, of course, a story itself is consolation's instrument.

I'm kind of a distractible guy.

The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.

The way in which sports focuses more on the peccadilloes, lives and putative personalities of athletes and less on the finer points of playing games, I've become less interested in it. I don't want to write sports profiles.

I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.