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

The public voice in the theater today is crude and raucous, and, all too often, weak-minded.

Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing below the surface, for a redemption and celebration of the body of the world. Ultimately, having an experience becomes identical with taking a photograph of it.

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.

The only interesting ideas are heresies

The decline of education in North America and I suppose in Western Europe makes it harder to have a common body of references.