Writing is physical for me. I always have the sense that the words are coming out of my body, not just my mind.

It was only as I wrote about fear that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then.

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.

I'm not a sociologist, and the novel has often concerned itself with sociology. It's one of the generating forces that's made fiction interesting to people. But that's not my concern. I'm interested in psychology. And also certain philosophical questions about the world.

There's never any percentage in being ahead of your time.

...Don't rupture another's illusion unless you're positive the alternative you offer is more worthwhile than that from which you're wrenching them. Interrogate your solipsism: Does it offer any better a home than the delusions you're reaching to shatter?

I'm not too embarrassed to say I'm the definition of the target audience. This is my generation, the one of exalting music in album form.