I prefer old books and find them more relevant. I dislike new books. It's like drinking wine that's not ready.

By removing the stories from the morass of things that surround us, I'm hoping to achieve some kind of purer approach to emotional life.

I'm a serial deconstructor of my own authority in certain areas.

I suppose in a way most of my characters are non-consumers, not terribly interested in all the little baubles and artifacts of contemporary life.

Anyone could see it all coming and no one could possibly stop it and that was the beautiful thing. Friday night was open wide and writ in stone

You can't be deep without a surface

I don't write about anything I don't love even if that love sometimes gets all screwed up and tormented.