We need time to lose interest in things.

People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night.

We live in an age of rapid mass media, television, Internet. They determine our tempo, not books.

Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.

I'm very concerned with questions of language. This is what I think of when I think of myself as a writer: I'm someone who writes sentences and paragraphs. I think of the sentence - not only what it shares but, in a sense, what it looks like. I like to match words not only in a way that convey a meaning, possibly an indirect meaning, but even at times words that have a kind of visual correspondence.

World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained.

I don't consider myself paranoid at all. I think I see things exactly as they are.