All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots.

I would never write in response to what I believe the public wanted or needed.

Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.

I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.

To be a tourist is to escape accountability.

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.

That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.