A book should either allow us to escape existence or teach us how to endure it.

Genre is a minimum security prison.

You're one of 6.5 billion people now on the planet, and 99.9 percent of your genes are the same as everyone else's.

The beauty of reality-based art - art underwritten by reality hunger - is that it's perfectly situated between life itself and (unattainable) "life as art".

Momentum, in literary mosaic, derives not from narrative but from the subtle, progressive buildup of thematic resonances.

I'm not interested in collage as the refuge of the composition-ally disabled. I'm interested in collage as (to be honest) an evolution beyond narrative.

Anything processed by memory is fiction.