When I write a novel I start each morning by reading for 20 minutes.

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.

The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.

Some idiotic things are well worth doing.

I want saner gun laws. I think all these automatic weapons should be banned, big clips and handguns should be banned. As far as I'm concerned, shotguns and hunting weapons are all that we should allow in America.

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

Love isn’t a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts.