Shaving is a way to start the workday by ritually not cutting your throat when you've the chance.

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

In art and life we're always reading bodies and behaviors (and skies and skylines or whatever), constructing brief and shifting coherences, and I guess I want to capture that process of characterization and re-characterization instead of offering up a few stable, easily-summarized individuals.

Just in case God isn't dead, our astronauts carry sidearms.

I've been building a fiction in part around the Marfa poem since my brief residency there, which has kept it from receding into the past.

I don't think "I'm going to publish this as fiction" but I think "I'm going to tell this story to a friend" and then I start telling the story in my mind as the experience transpires as a way of pretending it's already happened.

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