Very often, people who actually pick up a book of mine for the first time are kind of surprised. And I get these letters saying, well, who knew that you were good, you know?

Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.

Thomas Pynchon looks exactly like Thomas Pynchon should look. He is tall, he wears lumberjack shirts and blue jeans. He has Albert Einstein white hair and Bugs Bunny front teeth.

Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes.

This may be the curse of human race . Not that we are different from one anther , but we are so alike .

A man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality.

Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.