Life Is A Rock, But

You Play Your Cards So Close To Your Chest," Said Shadow, "that I'm Not Even Sure They're Really Cards At All.

I'm A Fairly Undisciplined Writer.

I Would Not Describe Myself As A Political Writer Except In The Sense That The Personal Is Political, Which Is Something That I Do Strongly Believe. And In That Sense American Gods Is A Very Personal Novel And A Political Novel. I Was Trying To Describe The Experience Of Coming To America As An Immigrant, The Experience Of Watching The Way That America Tends To Eat Other Cultures.

People Populate The Darkness; With Ghosts, With Gods, With Electrons, With Tales.

To Be Despair. It Is A Portrait. Only Close Your Eyes And Feel.