Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.

I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it.

Those who are driven by poverty, those who're free from material worries hunger exhausting labor a joyless existence ask the same question, the question of meaning.

Everytime you read, you are walking among the dead, and, if you are listening, you just might hear prophecies.

There must be a secret hidden in this book or else you wouldn't bother to read it

I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever.

Death is another bar which lies several steps below the normal world. I'm at its threshold, but not yet in it. Its doorway is doorless.