I'm not reclusive at all. Just private.

To portray America over the past twenty years or so, I would think immediately of football, probably the Super Bowl in its sumptuous suggestion of a national death wish.

Plot a murder, you're saying. But every plot is a murder in effect. To plot is to die, whether we know it or not.

In our world we sleep and eat the image and pray to it and wear it too.

Technology and violence are interdependent.

He wanted paper and something to write with, some way to sustain a thought, to place it in the world.

Making things difficult for the reader is less an attack on the reader than it is on the age and its facile knowledge-market.