Most American writers don't get asked their opinion on current affairs, whereas in Europe and England, we still do. There are writers here who are the most sophisticated commentators, but they're not asked. Like Don DeLillo, who sort of forecast most of the modern world before it happened.

The world is about the way in which our dreams intersect with our real life. Endlessly, the world of the imagination changes the world.

He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.

It just requires so much of you, and most of the time you feel dumb.

What's the use of stories that aren't even true?

Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.

Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border.