Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else.

I don't know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them.

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

You live in a tower that soars to heaven and goes unpunished by God.

Why are homosexuals addicted to soap opera? Because our lives are a vivid situation.

I was never either pro-culture or counter-culture. I was in a kind of middle state.

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.