I do think that just about whenever I am writing, or more accurately, whenever I have written, I feel better and more at peace as a human being. That doesn't mean, unfortunately, that the literary product is any good.

Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.

Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life.

Updike worked this way, and I just kinda borrowed it from him. So the memoir will be relief from novel writing for a moment.

It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and moving out into the world more.

I believe that God locates himself at the spot where you recognize your own fallibility....And the paradox of it all has been that whenever I give up I seem to do better.

I made this list of stuff that it's time for me to try to do.