When I work I have a sculptor's sense of the shape of the words I'm making. I use a machine with larger than average letters: the bigger the better.

Too much has been forgotten in the name of memory.

I am not comfortable with abstract writing, stories that look like essays: you have to see, I need to see.

There is a world inside the world.

Talent is more erotic when it's wasted.

Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.