I don't see writing as a communication of something already discovered, as "truths" already known. Rather, I see writing as a job of experiment. It's like any discovery job; you don't know what's going to happen until you try it.

Language can do what it can’t say.

I'll be Pavlov, you be the dog.

Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.

Can injustice one way be corrected without the interim reaction that tries to impose injustice the other way?

The more you let yourself be distracted from where you are going, the more you are the person that you are. It's not so much like getting lost as it is like getting found.

You shouldn't have standards that inhibit you from writing It really doesn't make any difference if you are good or bad today. The assessment of the product is something that happens after you've done it.