When one writes, there’s the double horror of discovering not only what it is that one so fears but also the triviality of that fear.

Every moment is all the things that have happened before and all the things that are going to happen, and...the way all those things look at one point on their way along a line.

Art is inherently subversive. It’s destabilizing. It undermines what you already know and what you already think. It is the opposite of propaganda.

It's broadening. You meet people in your family you'd never happen to run into otherwise.

I always thought of writing as holy. I still do. It’s not something to be approached casually.

I'm a person with virtually no feelings.

When one writes, there’s the double horror of discovering not only what it is that one so fears but also the triviality of that fear.