I'm defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre.

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

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

I think the parable is a peculiar way of saying that redemption is immanent whether or not it's imminent, that the world to come is in a sense always already here, if still unavailable. I find this idea powerful for several reasons. For one thing, it's an antidote to despair.

Maybe now if you're not an exhibitionist you're private. Or maybe it's just that for a lot of people - sometimes in interesting ways, sometimes in stupid ways - there's no division between the art object and what surrounds it.

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.

I'm defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre.