If I represent the world as it is as harmonious, that's a political position.

I'm a dilettante by temperament. I don't have any expectation.

Sometimes I don't write at all. Someone once asked me, "What do you do when you're not writing?" And I said, "I idle."

I wanted us to share the sense that the number of wrong moves far exceeds the number of good moves, to share the frightening instability of the correct decision, to bond in being confounded.

When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.

It's so internalized, the way your mind works in relation to anything - it's a process, but then it isn't. It's working all the time.

For a fight to be productive, or at least relevant, writers should fight over different demands they put upon writing (as an individual, private act) and literature (a network of relations in which we are all involved).