It's harder to get hold of the world. It's harder to understand the world, to encompass the literature necessary for the information.

If you can propose a memoir, even if you are eighteen years old - and what do you remember? What are you memeing? If you can propose a memoir, I believe someone will pay you to write it. And you will get a contract for nonfiction. And if it is about victimology in one way or another than you'll get more money. It's a sensation.

Oh, a bookshop. Why not pop in and buy a little Kant? And perhaps just a quarter-pound of Kafka. Don't bother to wrap it, thanks. I'll eat it here.

Let's look at what the books are that are being produced. More and more they are being made like movies. To sell. They are being tested out.

Good art is a form of prayer. It's a way to say what is not sayable.

I can't imagine having the courage to ask a publisher to do a whole book of my poems.

History is beautiful stories or scary stories, yeah.