“Man is simply the best chance we know of that matter has had of provid...” — Italo Calvino Quote

Man is simply the best chance we know of that matter has had of providing itself with information about itself.

I write by hand, making many, many corrections. I would say I cross out more than I write. I have to hunt for words when I speak, and I have the same difficulty when writing.

I detest this contemporary trend to destroy the traditional hierarchy of genres.

...And meanwhile the Galaxy ran through space and left behind those signs old and new and I still hadn't found mine.

I was born in Cuba, and my parents were tropical agronomists.

Detroit was kind of a random thing where it was like a chance to be in a rock 'n' roll movie.

Actors go into it because it gives us the chance to play people a great deal more interesting than we are, and to say things infinitely wittier and more intelligent than anything we could think of.

Writing a mystery is like drawing a picture and then cutting it into little pieces that you offer to your readers one piece at a time, thus allowing them the chance to put the jigsaw puzzle together by the end of the book.

I like hanging with my family and helping them on their way however I can. There's a new tragicomedy every half-hour, there is laughter, there are tears, and it's all real. They are endlessly entertaining, they have given me so much, they've given me a chance to 'see' things again.