I love insult, it's always honest.

Was it confusing because it was artistic, or artistic because it was confusing?

It's always a challenge to discover the most effective first sentence, and the most effective final sentence, in a chapter for instance, and in the book as a whole.

All actors are whores. They want only one thing: to seduce you.

Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard. The one is presumably articulate and social, a shared language, the voice of "communication"; the other is private, allusive, teasing, sly, idiosyncratic as the spider's delicate web, a kind of witchcraft unfathomable to ordinary minds.

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

A writer’s life is in his work, and that is the place to find him.