Metaphor is embodied in language.

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

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.

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

Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.

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

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?