"I'm a novelist, period. An American novelist."

"I am not particularly distressed by the state of fiction or the role of the writer. The more marginal, perhaps ultima…"

"I think fiction comes from everything you've ever done, and said, and dreamed, and imagined. It comes from everything…"

"Popular culture is inescapable in the U.S. Why not use it?"

"The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history. This sustained Oswald in his…"

"I think what'll happen in the not-too-distant future is that we'll have humane wars. Each side agrees to use clean bo…"

"Of course the humanistic mind crumbles at the whole idea. It's the most hideous thing in the world to these people th…"

"War is the ultimate realization of modern technology."

"I reject the notion of football as warfare. Warfare is warfare. We don't need substitutes because we've got the real …"

"I think fiction rescues history from its confusions."