The transpersonal is more awe-inspiring, more exciting than the thing we confuse it for.

The transpersonal is more awe-inspiring, more exciting than the thing we confuse it for.

Henry James claim that if you want to be a novelist you should be somebody on whom nothing is lost.

I didn't want to write another book about fraudulence.

I came to realize that far more important to me than any plot or conventional sense was the sheer directionality I felt while reading prose, the texture of time as it passed, life's white machine.

Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in weak short stories or novels.

Your interviews or blog posts or whatever are less supplements to your novel than part of it. I'm not private, but I believe in literary form - I'll use my life as material for art (I don't know how not to do this) and I'll use art as a way of exploring that passage of life into art and vice versa, but that's not the same thing as thinking that any of the details of my life are interesting or relevant on their own.