I felt myself getting whiter... What does it mean to become white? How does it feel to see Death in the flesh, come to gather you in?

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.

There are times when you want to stop working at faith and just be washed in a blowing wind that tells you everything.

I didn’t do anything. I don’t have an explanation, I don’t know why I wanted to write. I did some short stories at that time, but very infrequently. I quit my job just to quit. I didn’t quit my job to write fiction. I just didn’t want to work anymore

You need to know things the others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.

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.

Off-camera lives are unverifiable.