If you want to be a serious writer, then you have to write what there is to write about. If you're going to pull your punches and second-guess yourself and not do things because you're worried, then don't write. Stay home and do something else.

The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.

I've always thought that one of the things that the Internet and the gaming world permits as a narrative technique is to not tell the story from beginning to end - to tell stories sideways, to give alternative possibilities that the reader can, in a way, choose between.

Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.

Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.

One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.

It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.