I made this list of stuff that it's time for me to try to do.

The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures.

So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books I want to have the whole range of human emotions.

Tangled in one another's arms and nine times out of ten the things you think about a person make it impossible to touch them.

Major theme of the book ["Hotels of North America"], from my point of view: what is persona, what is self, in the digital sphere, and/or what is the effect of it on self in a prolonged interaction.

Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem.

My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style.