I would say that Edgar Allan Poe, [Georges] Perec, Thomas Pynchon, and [Jorge Luis] Borges are all boy-writers. These are writers who take... a kind of demonic joy in writing.
I never feel I'm standing on solid ground, and I do write with a certain kind of trembling fear.
It would be a terrible world if everyone was an artist. Nothing would get done!
Fiction creating reality.
There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.
It's June second, he told himself. Try to remember that. This is New York, and tomorrow will be June third. If all goes well, the following day will be the fourth. But nothing is certain.