T. C. Boyle

As humans, we all want our own island. Of course, the truth is, we're never going to get it.

I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else.

The compulsively readable events of my life occurred mainly in infancy, and it's been pretty humdrum ever since.

I studied international relations and economics at the University of Virginia. I paid my way by working as a bartender in the summer and at three part-time jobs during the year.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.