When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

It may be that the most avid readers of new fiction in America today are film producers, an indication of the trouble were in.

Because like all whores you value propriety. You are creature of capitalism, the ethics of which are so totally corrupt and hypocritical that your beauty is no more than the beauty of gold, which is to say false and cold and useless.

Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and can lead to wars.

I worry about images. Images are what things mean.

Every major work of art is a transgression, but the artist is not necessarily, by nature, a transgressor.