The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.

The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt.

I've become President of the Author's Guild, and, in part because they thought I had to know what I was talking about and also as a sort of coronation present, they got me an iPad. And I have to tell you, I'm crazy about it. It's got some bugs, but it's basically replaced my laptop. I'm very happy with it.

It’s not the obviousness or the complexity of the things that’s deftly deluding mankind. It’s man himself.

They wanted a list of symptoms: dizziness, blurred vision, palpitations. You could not say, it is a different life trying to nudge this one aside. I am meant to be living that different life. Who would understand that, if she could make no better sense of understanding it herself?

The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author.