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" What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions. "

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" My job is to engage, entertain, work out my life, tell a certain truth. "

" In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive. "

" As humans, we all want our own island. Of course, the truth is, we're never going to get it. "

" What is your identity, and how do you know who you are if you don't have language? "

" Art saved me. It may sound corny, but it's true. "

" I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror. "

" I envy Jesus because he's dead. "

" The novel is a seduction; a reader has to be seduced. "

" I like to live in my own mind, regardless of everyone and everything, working out the intimate puzzles that are my stories and novels. "

" I tell jokes, and I have fun, but I tend to worry about everybody and everything throughout the entire world. "

" I am mad for nature writing. I want to get inside the head of every creature in the world, even ants. "

" I hope to stay light on my feet, to work in many modes, to seek inspiration always, and avoid the fatal. But, as we all know, it is the price of life to burn out, both metaphorically and literally. "

" One of the reasons I've been able to be productive is that I want to do everything. "

" I never go anywhere without a book for fear of being stuck in line in front of the theater or strapped down in the dentist's chair and being bored witless. Thus, I read everywhere. "

" Every story is organic, and every story finds its own ending. "

" You want, as an artist, to be pushing yourself to do what you haven't done before. "

" Look at Sam Beckett. Most depressed man who ever lived, but he sure was funny. "

" I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation. "

" I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else. "

" I read widely - for news, the arts, science, for entertainment, and the value of being informed - and, as a fiction writer, I can't help transposing what I learn into the scenario for a novel or story. "

" Sometimes, we find common ground; more often, we don't. "

" The compulsively readable events of my life occurred mainly in infancy, and it's been pretty humdrum ever since. "

" I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in. "

" I think the way to be a writer is to experience things, certainly, and be open to things, but at some point to become dedicated to the craft of writing and to create a stable environment for that writing to occur in. "

" Sometimes if something is entertaining and amusing, people tend to think that it doesn't have the depth of something that's dramatic. I don't think that's true. "

" I'm just kind of fascinated by how we can deny that we are animals and what our impact on the other animals is like, and how quixotic we can be in trying to assess what we've done in trying to correct it. "

" It's hard to say how certain stories just punch us in the heart and the brain at the same time at the end. I suppose that's what we're all looking for. But each story has its own valence, its own way of saying goodbye to you. "

" I think, if I'm doing my job correctly, I'm presenting a scenario for you as the reader to engage with on your own. I mean, that's what the best art is supposed to do. It's not supposed to be political. I think if you read all my books, you know where I stand, pretty much. "

" I've always written about heroes and wondered who they are. "

" Books are up against TV and movies and video games and a multimedia society that is so busy that people don't have contemplative time any more. I worry deeply about this. In fact, I worry about everything all the time. I used to be a punk. All I wanted to do was tear everything down, and that was so much easier. "