My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.
“Military intelligence interrogators, however, their goal is to get information, to save lives, to stop the war, to find Saddam - whatever the information is going to be used for, at whatever cost.”
“I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?”