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

When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.

Isn't death the boundary we need? Doesn't it give a precious texture to life, a sense of definition? You have to ask yourself whether anything you do in this life would have beauty and meaning without the knowledge you carry of a final line, a border or limit.

I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.

In this country there is a universal third person, the man we all want to be. Advertising has discovered this man. It uses him to express the possibilities open to the consumer. To consume in America is not to buy; it is to dream. Advertising is the suggestion that the dream of entering the third person singular might possibly be fulfilled.

That's what in theory differentiates a writer from everyone else. You see and hear more clearly.

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.