I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it.

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It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration...

It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration...

I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes...

I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes...

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz,...

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz,...

True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to...

True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to...

For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns...

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns...

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

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

There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the...

There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the...

I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.

I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.

Hardship makes the world obscure.

Hardship makes the world obscure.

The future belongs to crowds

The future belongs to crowds

I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something...

I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something...

I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way,...

I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way,...

There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of...

There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of...

Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.

Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.

When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It...

When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It...

I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to...

I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to...

ABC Television Network: Your services, such as they are, will no longer be required as...

ABC Television Network: Your services, such as they are, will no longer be required as...

He was both [television's] first celebrity and its most persistent conscience.

He was both [television's] first celebrity and its most persistent conscience.

Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.

Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.