There's a beauty to math. Math is so simple. It's just one step after the next.

It's the writer's job to disarm the reader of his logic, to just make the reader feel.

I finished 'America America,' and I knew I had to write another book, not just for personal reasons but because I had a contract.

I'm becoming more of a novelist as I get older. The novel just seems the truer form. There's less artifice involved.

When I write, I can become this ecstatic, crazy fellow, hearing the voices and just loosening up and letting them grow.

A novel, at least for me, cannot be visualized at one time.