My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I am.

The truth of history crowds out the truth of fiction - as if one were obliged to choose between them.

I write - and talk - in order to find out what I think.

My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I am.

Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.

To the militant, identity is everything.

Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic.