I'm not a Democrat; I'm something well to the left of a Democrat, but I'm just realistic about the system.

I've been a serial husband, and I've done it badly every time.

Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.

San Antonio is like a military town. It's like literally - when I was growing up there, there were five Air Force bases, plus Fort Sam Houston. I was always sort of near the military.

Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.

Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion, too.

People hate good books to be over. I wish I could write a 700-page book.