"To be willing to sort of die in order to move the reader, somehow. Even now I'm scared about how sappy this'll look in print, saying this."

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"Fiction's about what it is to be a human being."

Being

"This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it."

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"For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going."

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"Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes."

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