I'm not reclusive at all. Just private.

Bloomberg weighed three hundred pounds. This itself was historical. I revered his weight. It was an affirmation of humanity's reckless potential; it went beyond legend and returned through mist to the lovely folly of history. To weigh three hundred pounds. What devout vulgarity.

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.

It is so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams

Somehow pictures always lead to people as masses. Books belong to individuals.

I understand there are some men who are only half here. Let's not say men. Let's say people. People who are more or less obscure at times.

I think fiction comes from everything you've ever done, and said, and dreamed, and imagined. It comes from everything you've read and haven't read... I think my work comes out of the culture of the world around me. I think that's where my language comes from.