I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next.

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

There are times when you want to stop working at faith and just be washed in a blowing wind that tells you everything.

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

He said, "The word for moonlight is moonlight.

In these night recitations we create a space between things as we felt them at the time and as we speak them now. This is the space reserved for irony, sympathy and fond amusement, the means by which we rescue ourselves from the past.

A mystery novel localizes the awesome force of the real death outside the book, winds it tightly in a plot.