I think people are trying out ideas with the new technology and it's too early to say where it's going exactly. But again, whether it's digital or pa….

This was the first time he had seriously confronted what he was doing, and the force of that awareness came very abruptly - with a surging of his pul….

Books demand more. You have to be a more active participant..

Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with ….

Libraries aren't in the real world, after all. They're places apart, sanctuaries of pure thought. In this way I can go on living on the moon for the ….

Brooklyn has a bit of everything - some of the most beautiful things in America, and some of the most wretched, ugly, impoverished things..

There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads..

Memoirs have dominated the literary scene now for ten or 20 or even 30 years: most of them seem to use the conventions of fiction and it's astonishin….

It's June second, he told himself. Try to remember that. This is New York, and tomorrow will be June third. If all goes well, the following day will ….

It's beyond the grasp of anyone's memory to recall conversations in kind of [memoir] detail. So it's fake. It's all made up..

Don't be a writer, it's a terrible way to live your life, there's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have….

One should never underestimate the power of books..

We are all aliens to ourselves, and if we have any sense of who we are, it is only because we live inside the eyes of others..

You're too good for this world, and because of that the world will eventually crush you..

Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty..

Life is deeply tragic and also very comic at the same time. It's everything at once..

Surely it is an odd way to spend your life - sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour after hour, day after day, year after year, strugg….

In fact, writing, especially writing autobiographical works, and this is actually the fourth time I've done it, each time I've done it I've felt deep….

My wife is my first reader, my first line of defence I suppose. So she says, "Oh well, oh yes, it's all true." At the same time, I could have written….

"The weird world rolls on..." meaning that through all the ups and downs, all the travails that we go through, all the horrors, all the wars, all the….

Bodies count, of course - they count more than we're willing to admit - but we don't fall in love with bodies, we fall in love with each other. We al….