perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.

I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.

When I am writing novels I don't read a lot of novels so I try to catch up in-between.

I am on Facebook, but mainly as a way to spy on my children. I find out more about them from their Facebook pages than from what they tell me.

I fell victim to the temptation of every autobiographer, to the illusion that since the past exists only in one's memories and the words which strive vainly to encapsulate them, it is possible to create past events simply by saying they occurred.

O the shame of it, the humiliating shame of being condescended to by dolts

You don't that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that's a loss.