Technology and violence are interdependent.

The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever.

It's true that some of us become better writers by living long enough. But this is also how we become worse writers. The trick is to die in between.

Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn.

Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else.

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.

A writer decides to follow some ideas and not others for reasons that aren't always clear to him. It's often a matter of intuition.