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.

I think first-person narrators should be complex, because otherwise the first-person is too shallow and predictable. I like a first-person narrator who can't totally be trusted.

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

I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way.

I don't know exactly how long the book as we know it will exist, but I fully expect to make it to my death without having to give up on books.

The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.

I sort of hate the novel when it doesn't push, restlessly, against the tradition and the traditional.