Fantasy for me as a kid was real, and I had a fantasy about what life was, whether it was sort of wicked and dire, or wholly normal, or whatever. Anything really close to home is not, it seems to me, what a good book should be about.
“The more you do, the more experience you have and the next time it will be easier to choose the right thing.”
“I don't know what happens if they get bin Laden. I'm much more interested in what happens if they don't get bin Laden.”