If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

I'm just trying to look at something without blinking, to see what it is like, or it could have been like, and how that had something to do with the way we live now. Novels are always inquiries for me.

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end. A little bit of hunger, but also satisfaction.

If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic.

I don't do the things other people call "play."

Much handled things are always soft(27).