There is a long time in me between knowing and telling.

I really believe one of the jobs of a writer is to stretch as far as you can into other voices.

Art is too long, and life is too short.

What we owe men is some freedom from their part in a murderous game in which they kick each other to death with one foot, bracing themselves on our various comfortable places with the other.

I begin by writing paragraphs that don’t have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first.

I read a lot. I liked a tremendous number of poets and writers. The person whose work I liked the most was Joyce.

I should have written more. I should have written more during the period when I just liked so much doing the political work in the streets.