When birds look into houses, what impossible worlds they see.

Eye contact was a delicate matter. A quarter second of a shared glance was a violation of agreements that made the city operational.

My attitudes aren't directed toward characters at all. I don't feel sympathetic toward some characters, unsympathetic toward others. I don't love some characters, feel contempt for others. They have attitudes; I don't.

I am very unmusical. I can't carry a tune. I would never be able to play an instrument.

Technology and violence are interdependent.

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

The best moments involve a loss of control. It's a kind of rapture, and it can happen with words and phrases fairly often - completely surprising combinations that make a higher kind of sense, that come to you out of nowhere. But rarely for extended periods, for paragraphs and pages - I think poets must have more access to this state than novelists do.