I've always felt that my subject was living in dangerous times.

I don't want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from the words on the page and do something, hurt someone.

There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there's kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn.

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

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.

I am not particularly distressed by the state of fiction or the role of the writer. The more marginal, perhaps ultimately the more trenchant and observant and finally necessary he'll become.