The task is not so much to solve problems as to propose questions.

See the moon? It hates us.

I don't think you can talk about progress in art - movement, but not progress. You can speak of a point on a line for the purpose of locating things, but it's a horizontal line, not a vertical one.

Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult, but because it wishes to be art.

The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.

My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in all sorts of ways, a wicked wit.

There's not a strong autobiographical strain in my fiction. A few bits of fact here and there.