Only art means anything.

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.

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

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.

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

The helpful thought for which you look Is written somewhere in a book.

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.