Everything interests me.

The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.

Evil is the refusal to see one's self in others.

In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.

Music forecasts the past, recalls the future. Now and then the difference falls away, and in one simple gift of circling sound, the ear solves the scrambled cryptogram. One abiding rhythm, present and always, and you're free. But a few measures more, and the cloak of time closes back around you.

All we can ever do is lay a word in the hands of those who have put one in ours.

I used to work for 12 or 14 hours at a time but the digital age has made such happy immersions almost impossible.