Literary fiction and poetry are real marginalized right now. There's a fallacy that some of my friends sometimes fall into, the ol' "The audience is stupid. The audience only wants to go this deep. Poor us, we're marginalized because of TV, the great hypnotic blah, blah." You can sit around and have these pity parties for yourself. Of course this is bullshit. If an art form is marginalized it's because it's not speaking to people. One possible reason is that the people it's speaking to have become too stupid to appreciate it. That seems a little easy to me.

Fiction is about what it is to be a human being.

Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it.

There's good self-consciousness, and then there's toxic, paralyzing, raped-by-psychic-Bedouins self-consciousness.

People, unless they're paying attention, tend to confuse fanciness with intelligence or authority.

...logical validity is not a guarantee of truth.

I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear