The internet is like a surround system, a landscape at its most benign, a closed system of surveillance and self-surveillance at its more sinister. Something we can no longer imagine an outside of.

In a way, art has always been my way of problem-solving, of getting through situations, of finding my response to things, so to imagine doing something else makes me panic a little bit.

Letters orchestrated into a song of words create the symphony of a novel.

America has had many other discoverers besides Columbus, but he seems to have made more satisfactory arrangements with the historians than any of the others.

I love being in America.

Anything mentionable is manageable.

The proofs of the existence of God are to such an extent fallen into discredit that they pass for something antiquated, belonging to days gone by.

It's that invasive and puerile curiosity to feed a tabloid culture. I don't subscribe to it.

All summer long we spent dancin' in the sand, and the jukebox kept on playing Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room.

If I had wanted only to make lots of money, I would have chosen a different profession.

If I had to do it all over again, I would do it all over again.