I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once abandoned these familiar ways of thinking about fiction, totality of vision or structure was really all that remained.

I do not feel an exile from America in any sense.

A lot of times, you just don't get the jobs you want to get.

I had to go to Sunday school once or twice in my life, and that's where I commented someplace on hearing.

Starting in the mid-'80s, I played in a band called Meat Joy, and we made our own record, toured.

It's tough being an actor making music, because even I have a knee-jerk reaction to that.

To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.