I'm A Novelist, Period. An American Novelist.

I Felt Joyce Was An Influence On My Fiction, But In A Very General Way, As A Kind Of Inspiration And A Model For The Beauty Of Language.

Off-camera Lives Are Unverifiable.

He Wanted Paper And Something To Write With, Some Way To Sustain A Thought, To Place It In The World.

I Think Silence Is The Condition You Accept As The Judgment On Your Crimes.

I've Always Felt That My Subject Was Living In Dangerous Times.