It is all falling indelibly into the past.

California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.

Digital clocks took the 'space' out of time.

He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things, he says, that are most natural to him.

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

I am not comfortable with abstract writing, stories that look like essays: you have to see, I need to see.