If landscape is a character for me, then it helps if I'm familiar with it and I already have a take on it.

The work is where I tend to feel pressure - not so much in the reaction to it.

I don't think you can create effectively toward expectation. I'm not in the service business.

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because to some degree, I projected upon it.

I read The Conspiracy Against the Human Race and found it incredibly powerful writing. For me as a reader, it was less impactful as philosophy than as one writers ultimate confessional: an absolute horror story, where the self is the monster.

The ideas within this philosophy are certainly not exclusive to any writer.

You just do the best you can, and when you're able to connect with people, and when you do, it's just incredibly gratifying.