Everything's a scandal. Dying's a scandal. But we all do it.

Making things difficult for the reader is less an attack on the reader than it is on the age and its facile knowledge-market.

The music I like best is kind of frozen in my mind from the Sixties and Seventies. I still listen to the same jazz music I listened to when I was eighteen years old, and like and admire it just as much.

I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.

In our world we sleep and eat the image and pray to it and wear it too.

Some nights I need to be held. Tonight I'm a listener. So nice to lie in rumpled sheets and listen. Cover me with words.

In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.