I was a radioman when I first went into the Navy, so I learned to type by taking Morse code. So I was using the typewriter from day one. My handwriting wasn't any good anyway.

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

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

I think there's a necessity for some attachment to the spiritual world and, in a way, people really have to have it.

It's all about letting the story take over.

It’s hard to stay away from religion when you mess with acid.

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.