For a time after my divorce everything began to seem profoundly ironic to me. I found myself thinking of other peoples' worries as sources of amusement and private derision which I thought about at night to make myself feel 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.

Literature should not be exclusive, it should be inclusive. My general view is that you can't, based on your own experience, project what a book will do for someone else. That's why I don't review books.

Things you did. Things you never did. Things you dreamed. After a long time they run together.

I've been mainly a happy boy in my life. I married the right girl and we did what we wanted to do.

Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.

Only sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction.