Increasingly I think of myself as some strange and solitary conductor, introduced to a group of very dynamic musicians who happen to be my characters, and I have no idea how they are going to play together, and I have certainly no idea how I am going to put manners on them.

Ultimately, you can only ever write what you know. It's logically and philosophically impossible to write what you don't know.

The point of flight. To get rid of oneself. That was reason enough to fly.

Words are good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't.

The contemporary American novelist benefits in a way from being ignored. It makes you angrier and makes you want to go into all of those places where you shouldnt.

A book is completed only when it is finished by a reader.

He felt for a moment uncreated. Another kind of awake.