I don't know. But if someday evidence of a conspiracy does emerge, I expect it will be much more interesting and fantastic than the novel. The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence. The writer is the man or woman who automatically takes a stance against his or her government. There are so many temptations for American writers to become part of the system and part of the structure that now, more than ever, we have to resist.
American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.
Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail. So I think there is a sense in which fiction can rescue history from confusion. Most of that battering is simply due to the way our society is set up. But he tried to struggle against the odds, and I think this ultimately produced a greater rage and a greater frustration.