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.

I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.

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.

I'm not reclusive at all. Just private.

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

When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that's not familiar. But I'm not trying to manipulate reality. This is just what I see and hear.

Everything's a scandal. Dying's a scandal. But we all do it.