You don't want to depend on an editor. If you want to regret something for the rest of your life, you want to make sure you're responsible for it.

The things that you know more about than you want to know are very useful.

The term [Americanization] invokes the transformation of the landscape into unnatural mechanical shapes, of night into day, of speed for its own sake, an irrational passion for novelty at the expense of quality, a worship of gimmickry.

I try very hard to be fair, and I look for ironies. In a way, I live on ironies as a novelist.

It's easy to create a country, all you have to do is to think of a name for it

I think everybody must be aware that this society is a whole lot shakier now than it was before the war. I was trying to examine, in 'Dog Soldiers,' the process of that blow falling on America

When rewriting, move quickly. It's a little like cutting your own hair.