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.

War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.

If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.

If an idea seems to find its way towards a stage setting, that's the direction I take. I don't know if I'm trying to achieve anything other than to follow an idea on to the page.

I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next.

Even when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others.

Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live.