The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.

You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.

The nowness of everything is absolutely wondrous. [...] If you see the present tense, boy do you see it! And boy can you celebrate it.

It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.

A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.

God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.

That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.