Maybe when we die, the first thing we'll say is 'I know this feeling. I was here before'.

It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know.

Look at those numbers running. Money makes time. It used to be the other way around. Clock time accelerated the rise of capitalism. People stopped thinking about eternity. They began to concentrate on hours, measurable hours,man-hours, using labor more efficiently.

Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else. This is where California comes in. Mud slides, brush fires, coastal erosion, mass killings, et cetera. We can relax and enjoy these disasters because in our hearts we feel that California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

What you see is not what we see. What you see is distracted by memory, by being who you are, all this time, for all these years.

I was never either pro-culture or counter-culture. I was in a kind of middle state.

Any assault on the borders of perception is going to seem rash at first.