What Terrorists Gain, Novelists Lose.

We Surrounded Ourselves With Smoke And Loud Noise. That's The Way We Chose To Live. I'm Prepared To Defend It.

I Am Not Comfortable With Abstract Writing, Stories That Look Like Essays: You Have To See, I Need To See.

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

I Think There Is A Sense Of Last Things In My Work That Probably Comes From A Catholic Childhood.

Stories Have No Point If They Don't Absorb Our Terror.