To some extent I'm guilty of wishful thinking. The absence of the interstitial I find unbearable.

A nation,” he heard himself say, “consists of its laws. A nation does not consist of its situation at a given time. If an individual’s morals are situational, that individual is without morals. If a nation’s laws are situational, that nation has no laws, and soon isn’t a nation.

The future is there," Cayce hears herself say, "looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become. And from where they are, the past behind us will look nothing at all like the past we imagine behind us now.

I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it.

He took a duck in the face at 250 knots.

I think I'd probably tell you that it's easier to desire and pursue the attention of tens of millions of total strangers than it is to accept the love and loyalty of the people closest to us.

What we're doing pop culturally is like burning the rain forest. The biodiversity of pop culture is really, really in danger.