Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth b… - Salman Rushdie

America had left reality behind and entered the comic-book universe.

What can't be cured must be endured.

I've got nothing else to do. I would like to have a second skill, but I don't. I always envied writers like Günter Grass, who had a second career as a visual artist. I thought how nice it must be to spend a day wrestling with words, and then get up and walk down the street to your art studio and become something completely else. I don't have that. So, all I can do is this. As long as there's a story that I think is worth giving my time to, then I will. When I have a book in my head, it's as if the rest of the world is in its correct shape.