Faint equivalents can sometimes be found ... . Or it can be rendered obliquely-an adolescent's mental image of his or her parents making love, which must be something on the order of crocodiles mating.

Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult, rather because it wishes to be art. However much the writer might long to be straightforward, these virtues are no longer available to him. He discovers that in being simple, honest, straightforward, nothing much happens.

There was no particular point at which I stopped being promising.

How can you be alienated without first having been connected?

Write about what you're afraid of.

The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day.

Anathematization of the world is not an adequate response to the world.