Time Does Nothing But Hand You Down

The Incessant Perpetuation Of Collective Fantasies Makes People Crave The Truth And Nothing But The Truth - Reality Is The Fastest American Commodity.

I Actually Didn't Listen To The Beatles Song 'nowhere Man' When I Was Writing My Book Of The Same Name. What I Listened To A Lot Was 'abbey Road.' Its Disjointedness And Its Readiness To Confuse Only To Delight Were Inspiring To Me.

My Books Have Been Published All Over Europe. They Read Me There, And I Want To Read Them Back. I Also Spend A Lot Of Time In Europe, Often Meeting Writers, And I'm Sick Of Apologizing For The Embarrassing Shortage Of Translations In America.

Europe Is A Rapidly Changing Place, On Every Level. Immigration, Post-communist Transitions, The Unification, Steady Presence Of War And Conflict, The Inescapable Challenges To The Notion Of National Literature/culture-it All Exerts Pressure Upon Writers Who Must Be Aware Of The Transformational Possibilities Of The Situation.

I Long For, Not A Writer's Retreat - I Can Write In Any Situation - But A Reader's Retreat.