Nobody Deserves Death, Yet Everybody Gets It.

Even If You Tried To Extinguish Your Personality, What Is Left In The Story Will Reflect It, Perhaps By Its Negation. Our Lives Provide The Bricks From Which We Build These Cathedrals.

The Way I Think Of My Work Is That I Have To Think Up The Way To Tell A Story, Starting From Scratch. The Changes In The Industry Concern Me In A General Way Because I Think Civilization Is Doomed.

There's No Bad Writing; You Did Something. I Was Operating Inside Language, And I Did Something. I'm Not Ashamed Of It.

I'll Take Any Life In Which I Can Make Choices And Have Agency, And America Is Not A Bad Place For All That.

Literature Is Always Something - It Is Either Story Or Poetry, Ideally Both. That Is, You Always Know What It Is And Even If The Interpretation Is Not Available, The Experience Of Language Is.