Writing is a necessity and often a pleasure, but at the same time, it can be a great burden and a terrible struggle.

The past is still visible. The buildings haven't changed, the layout of the streets hasn't changed. So memory is very available to me as I walk around.

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

What's beautiful about art is that it circumscribes a space, a physical and mental space. If you try to put the entire world into every page, you turn out chaos.

My heart, to put it more simply, got nostalgic for the present. Always a bad sign.

I plan less and less. It's a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your head like a virtual space.

As I get older I find that the friendships that are the most certain, ultimately, are the ones where you and the other person have made substantial amounts of money for one another.