I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.

Don't you know girls have to fool people every day of their lives if they want to get anywhere?

Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.

I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.

I have had many more close women friends than men, and I've always assumed that comes from the fact that in my family there was such a disproportionate female element.

If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.

So Thomas Pynchon wants a private life and no photographs and nobody to know his home address. I can dig it, I can relate to that (but, like, he should try it when it's compulsory instead of a free-choice option).