There are certain families whose members should all live in different towns - different states, if possible - and write each other letters once a year.

The Archer novels are about various kinds of brokenness.

The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.

Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again.

Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world of disasters.

Hell lies at the bottom of the human heart.