Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself.

In cities no one notices specific dying. Dying is a quality of the air. It's everywhere and nowhere.

I am very unmusical. I can't carry a tune. I would never be able to play an instrument.

Maybe when we die, the first thing we'll say is 'I know this feeling. I was here before'.

Dying was just an extended version of Ash Wednesday.

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.

I am not particularly distressed by the state of fiction or the role of the writer. The more marginal, perhaps ultimately the more trenchant and observant and finally necessary he'll become.