We go to literature because it shows us some set of humane values. It is showing us how to live.

Sacrificing one's life on the altar of literature is in some ways like sacrificing a goat to some malicious spirit. It's not always a humane or necessary decision.

Hollywood is famous for breeding monsters, and having worked in the business, I've known a lot of them. But only intermittently have I ever found them monstrous. They have many other qualities.

Much to my surprise, there's a sense for people in the cable industry that fiction writers might actually be good at script writing. You can write dialogue!

It's hard enough to make a novel a novel. I wouldn't know how to make it something else at the same time

I sometimes get asked if I think about film stuff while I'm writing fiction, and the answer is, of course not.

These are the kind of movies that only a real apparatchik, someone who thinks that corporations are people, could love.

During the 90s, I watched a lot of people getting fat and prosperous, and I thought, culture itself is the casualty of this.

There was a moment when the Berlin Wall came down and some people felt, "Oh capitalism won. That's the ideology we can believe in now."

It's hard to imagine there's a place for great writing inside a multinational conglomerate.

Everybody says, TV is great, the writer has so much power. I'm still trying to convince myself that's true. When do the writers ever have power? Ever? They don't. Even in the book industry.

The arms, legs, and torso with head were dragged away in sections as the children were captivated by the drama, zealously chewing their candies with sticky teeth.

Life is likephotography we develop from the negatives

Chaos is hard to create, even on the Internet.

A myth doesn't have to be real to be true.

You think my kids just popped out of the ground?

It's in my blood. My great-grandfather made wine and it's a tradition I want to pass on to my son.

What you put out comes back all the time, no matter what.

There's nothing in the world so sad as talking to a man who never knew his life was his for making.

Consistently wise decisions can only be made by those whose wisdom is constantly challenged.

No sky is heavy if the heart be light