 I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal. |
| Is anything accidental? |
| If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter. |
| In America, if you don't do a 100 million dollars, you've done nothing. |
| The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel. |
| As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography. |
| When you're in the States and you're a writer and you've got money and you walk into a bank, you're a bum with money. |
| There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have. |
| I was a precocious reader. |
| Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype. |
| I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English. |
| You can really do more than you think you can do. |
| I'm not gifted, but I'm not hopeless. |
| English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market. |
| I never learned to read music. |
| The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them. |
| If it's not American, the French won't go see it. |
| It's trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it's wrong to think this means there is some kind of uniform world culture. |
| I write in American slang. |
| I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness. |
