I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
U.S. foreign policy is Manichaean. It's like a Hollywood movie. You have to know who has the white hat and who has the black hat and then go against the black hat.
I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.
The real bombs are my books, not me.
The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation.
The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
The United States is very good at understanding itself, and very bad at understanding others.
My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go.
Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.
Work is what saves you.
I have no literary fears.
I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.
I love having critics for breakfast.
I'm a writer, not a genre.
I've lost audiences, I've recovered them.
I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.
In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.
