I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.

I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.

I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.

I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.

If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.

There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.

In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.

There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.

Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.

One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.

People will always make comparisons.

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.