"I think that sense of unreality inspired me to write the story within the book that [August] Brill tells himself, one of the stories he tells himself."

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President Bush insisted that there was nothing in the August 6th, 2001 briefing, which was titled 'Bin Laden determined to attack the United States', that hinted what bin Laden was up to. Bush says that he would have moved mountains to stop the attack. Yeah, but he draws the line at reading a memo.

— David Letterman