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

One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.

We are all good friends. Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being.

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.

There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.

It was evident to him that the world composed and recomposed itself constantly in an endless process of dissatisfaction.

I have committed many sins in my life. This precise sin-the sin against poets-is without absolution.