If Shakespeare's great plays are variants of stories, even novels, you can see how each character is telling his story from his perspective; each is vying with the others for dominance, but in the end, in tragedy, most of these voices will die, to be replaced by the yet more vigorous voice of a younger generation.

Flying fosters fantasies of childhood, of omnipotence, rapid shifts of being, miraculous moments; it stirs our capacity for dreaming.

The appeal of writing is primarily the investigation of mystery.

Language is the instrument in all cases and can language be trusted?If it were not for language, could we lie?

"Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass.

All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading come later.

For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one sees them. The writer is invisible, which confers power.