Nonfiction gives you subjects. Writing fiction I can have more fun, but I have to invent my subject.

Kafka wrote the great line: "my education has damaged me in ways I do not even know." And that's always been a signature motto for me.

I don't believe a picture is worth a thousand words, unless they're very confusing words.

Ulysses pissed me off. When Molly Bloom just says, "Yes I said yes I will Yes." And I'm thinking, You should be saying no, Molly. How about no? Saying no is great.

It's true you have to screen out a lot living in the city. I stayed away from New York for a long time after college, and when I was first back, I'd read The Village Voice and feel like I was having a panic attack.

Certainly there will always be stories.

The literary world is more time-traveling than the art world, and novelty is much more important in art than it is in writing.