The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation.

Even when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others.

Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.

And what's the point of waking up in the morning if you don't try to match the enormousness of the known forces in the world with something powerful in your own life?

Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.

If an idea seems to find its way towards a stage setting, that's the direction I take. I don't know if I'm trying to achieve anything other than to follow an idea on to the page.

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.