When something in a sequence is edited, if you repeat an image, but in a different place, the effect is different. Because the brain is remembering, and the different juxtaposition triggers other memories, thoughts, ideas, and so on.

I think the major device for me is that narrator's voice. I'm always trying to find a different kind of form to tell whatever story it is, and I wish that weren't so, because it drives me crazy.

There are lots of unlikable characters in literature. It doesn't mean they're not fascinating.

Certainly there will always be stories.

You have to create the space for the possibility of people speaking as they do. If writing is supposed to lead us in any way or educate or suggest other ways of being, it can't do so by simply reflecting what's considered to be realistic.

Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the dead.

The Dutch and the English, former competitors for world dominance, taught me the wisdom of waiting as well as withholding.