These are the days after. Everything now is measured by after.

Plot a murder, you're saying. But every plot is a murder in effect. To plot is to die, whether we know it or not.

Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.

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

I hate my life. I'm at the point where I want to hear about other people's lives. it's like switching from fiction to biography.

I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.

I don't know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them.