I tend to think of myself as a highly emotional writer. It's all coming out of the deepest feelings, out of dreams, out of the unconscious.

Every book is a kind of experiment in doing something that feels impossible.

I don't want to indulge myself in the luxury of writing beautiful paragraphs just for the sake of making beautiful writing. That doesn't interest me. I want everything to be essential.

I try not to become too regular an addict of any one subculture.

It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.

The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory.

I want to write books that can be read a hundred years from now, and readers wouldn't be bogged down by irrelevant details.