There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.

One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.

I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.

It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.