It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know.

“He knew time and day of week and wondered when such scraps of data would begin …”

“I'm completely aware of Matisse and what he said, that painters must begin by c…”

“I began to think of myself as a perennial tourist. There was something agreeabl…”

“For most people, there are only two places in the world. Where they live and th…”