Vice is nice, but a little virtue won't hurt you.

Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else.

I don't think anything might have been. What is, is.

I don't know what it is I'm doing. But it's not that. Despite all evidence to the contrary.

All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.... You can describe all the externals of a performance - everything, in fact, but what really constitutes its core. Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is what's left over after you've explained everything else.

I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am. Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring.

Only art means anything.