Being Called A 'bad Citizen' Is A

One Connection I See Between Novelists And Terrorists Is That We Both Attempt To Alter Consciousness.

Out Of Some Persistent Sense Of Large-scale Ruin, We Kept Inventing Hope.

It's My Contention That Each Book Creates Its Own Structure And Its Own Length. I've Written Three Or Four Slim Books. It May Be That The Next Novel Is A Big One, But I Don't Know.

The Family Was An Art ... And The Dinner Table Was The Place It Found Expression.

Fame And Secrecy Are The High And Low Ends Of The Same Fascination.