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.

It's well we cannot hear the screams we make in other people's dreams.

This is the theory… that anything that is art… is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it’s no good having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else it’s irritating.

All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.

I feel that I am doing the minimum amount of damage to other possibilities that may take place in a reader's head.

I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist...I am a person who does those things.

There are so many things we've been brought up to believe that it takes you an awfully long time to realize that they aren't you.