To me experimental fiction ultimately is about the experiment and I'm not interested in experiments for their own sake.

Though energy and inspiration diminish, experience grows - the theme of parents and kids, for instance.

I tell the stories in the way that feels natural to tell them.

One of the basic philosophical tenets of conservatism - which says that the more power devolves from the federal government to the states, the greater individual freedom grows - is just flatly contradicted by crucial junctures in the country's life, most conspicuously in the 1860s and 1960s, when it's been the federal government that's interceded against the states to secure individual freedom.

I'm my own "ideal reader" in the sense that I write novels that I would want to read.

Being a man of taste and sophistication, the 80s were objectively, quantifiably, empirically, diagram-it-on-a-blackboard the worst decade in the history of recorded music.

By the late 70s conservatism was becoming more corporate on the one hand, more theocratic on the other. In reaction to the 60s, conservatism was more about order than freedom, more about conformity than singularity.