Minimalism itself had a very strong iconoclast impulse. You think of the sixties as loose and liberated, but in art it was actually quite the contrary.

Artists are expected to talk about their work but writers aren't expected to talk about their writing.

There is an ineffable but fatal difference in attitude between people behaving naturally and people behaving naturally for a camera.

You don't need everybody to agree with you, but you do need a few people. And by this point I have a fairly high degree of confidence in my judgment, in that I don't doubt my sanity; or, even if I do, I don't have to be reassured.

All artists and creative people are basically unhappy people. If you were happy, that would mean you were content with the world as it was and why would you ever want to change it?

With art criticism it's difficult to discuss beauty, to assess it, because there's always the possibility that we're insane.

I have a total responsibility to the reader. The reader has to trust me and never feel betrayed.