When It Comes To Flying,

Religious Belief Is Without Reason And Without Dignity, And Its Record Is Near-universally Dreadful.

What Did Nabokov And Joyce Have In Common, Apart From The Poor Teeth And The Great Prose? Exile, And Decades Of Near Pauperism.

Often It Doesn't Occur To You What Kind Of Novel You're Writing Until Quite Late On.

While Making Love, We Often Talk About Money. I Like It. I Like That Dirty Talk

September 11 Was A Day Of De-enlightenment. Politics Stood Revealed As A Veritable Walpurgis Night Of The Irrational. And Such Old, Old Stuff. The Conflicts We Now Face Or Fear Involve Opposed Geographical Arenas, But Also Opposed Centuries Or Even Millennia. It Is A Landscape Of Ferocious Anachronisms: Nuclear Jihad In The Indian Subcontinent; The Medieval Agonism Of Islam; The Bronze Age Blunderings Of The Middle East.