My Father Read 'the New York Times,'

I Have Always Had A Particular Antagonism For The Military.

And I Don't Want To Live Anywhere Where I Am Famous. It Makes Me Very, Very Uncomfortable, Because It Conveys An Advantage Over People, And I Don't Like That.

My Father Read 'the New York Times,' My Mother Did Secretarial Work, We Had A Dog, We Had A Garden, I Had A Brother.

All Through Graduate School, Instead Of Having A Television I Read Murder Mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James.

I Was At La Fenice Opera House Back In 1991 With Friends, And We Started Talking About A Conductor Whom None Of Us Liked. Somehow There Was An Escalation, And We Started Talking About How To Kill Him, Where To Kill Him. This Struck Me As A Good Idea For A Book.