American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100oC

Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.

There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.

The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled not only by the guarantee of the Good but also by the shudder of the Bad.

I write what I write.

If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.

A novel is a machine for generating interpretations.