I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

The less there was to see, the harder he looked, the more he saw. (Point Omega)

When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.

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

That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease.

In this country there is a universal third person, the man we all want to be. Advertising has discovered this man. It uses him to express the possibilities open to the consumer. To consume in America is not to buy; it is to dream. Advertising is the suggestion that the dream of entering the third person singular might possibly be fulfilled.

Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.