Time seems to me a drift, a shifting of sand. And my mind is shifting with it. I am wearing away.

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking.

What we call fiction is the ancient way of knowing, the total discourse that antedates all the special vocabularies....Fiction is democratic, it reasserts the authority of the single mind to make and remake the world.

The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.

We are able to walk on air, but only as long as our illusion supports us.

I worry about images. Images are what things mean.