The really important thing is not to reject anything.
One can know worlds one has not experienced, choose a response to life that has never been offered, create an inwardness utterly strong and fruitful.
I love to read the way people love to watch television.
the process of building a self and its works is always too slow. One is always in arrears to oneself.
Perversity is the muse of modern literature.
What I expect from writers-and from myself as a writer-is to articulate a complex view of things. To incite us to be more compassionate. To orchestrate our mourning. And to celebrate ecstasy.