Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world.

Try not to live in a linguistic slum.

In every society, the definitions of sanity and madness are arbitrary - are, in the largest sense, political.

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

The question of the social uses of photography opens out into the very largest issues of the self, of the relationship to community, to reality.

Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading.

My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another.