Fiction's about what it is to be a human being.

Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict this world and to illuminate the possibilities for being alive and human in it."

[Q&A with Larry McCaffery, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Summer 1993, Vol. 13.2]

I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art.

My basic philosophy is that no human being is a saint.

When I talk about celebrities, it's not a dismantling of that human being.

The kinds of stories I want to be a part of telling are about delving into what it is to be a human being.