A dead afternoon in a dark bar was not the worst of fates.

It is so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams

To be a tourist is to escape accountability.

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

If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity.

I do think that in the near future, if it hasn't happened already, people will be able to use technology to design their own novels, perhaps with individuals themselves as the main character. In other words, everything is being individualized and narrowed.

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