There is a great deal that either has to be given up or be taken away from you if you are going to succeed in writing a body of work.

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

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

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.

We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.

To the militant, identity is everything.

Images are more real than anyone could have supposed.