A person always has a chance to protest this or that.

Much of my work has been done in first person.

A person always has a chance to protest this or that.

I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor.

A beginning idea for a book might be: a boy emerges from a hole in the ground. He enters a house. The book will take place in the first ten minutes following his arrival.

First, he says, you have to go out into the world. This is not a simple matter of going outside one's door. No, that is simply going out. That's what one does when one is on the way to the store to buy a loaf of bread, some cheese, and a bottle of wine. When one goes out into the world, one is shedding preconceptions of past paths and ideas of past paths, and trying to move freely through an unsubstantiated and new geography.

Clarity is the most important thing to me - in thinking - and so I try in the books to be as clear as possible.