The minute you start putting words on paper you're eliminating possibilities.

I lead a very conventional life.

There must be times when everybody writes when they feel they're evading writing.

I mean maybe I was holding all the aces, but what was the game?

There's a general impulse to distract the grieving person - as if you could.

We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images.

I never had much interest in being a child. As a way of being it seemed flat, failed to engage.