The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.

Lives don't divide up into chapters. People don't just talk, while nothing's going on in their head, and then respond. You know, none of these things actually happen.

Whatever respect photography may once have deserved is now superfluous in view of its own superfluity.

Like all right-listening folk, I am an implacable enemy of all muzak.

The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.

Whenever I produce my best work, it's always because I've spent time being idle. Something always emerges after nothing.

I prefer to write first drafts as soon as possible after waking, so that the oneiric inscape is still present to me.