Pain is just another form of information.

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

How many beginnings before you see the lies in your excitement?

I'm not reclusive at all. Just private.

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

It's all about time, dimwit time, inferior time, people checking watches and other devices, other reminders. This is time draining out of our lives. Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There's an endless counting down, he said. When you strip away surfaces, when you see into it, what's left is terror. This is the thing that literature was meant to cure. The epic poem, the bedtime story.

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