I'm interested in the possibility of fiction which straddles narrative and essay.

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.

An important job of the critic is to savage what is mediocre or meretricious.

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.

The creative phase of an idea coincides with the period during which it insists, cantankerously, on its boundaries, on what makes it different; but an idea becomes false and impotent when it seeks reconciliation, at cut-rate prices, with other ideas.

All possibility of understanding is rooted in the ability to say no.

If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.