Writers who can't invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn't paint people, so he painted chairs.

The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime

Politics isn't in my nature.

Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.

Writers who can't invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn't paint people, so he painted chairs.

I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.

What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.