When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that's not familiar. But I'm not trying to manipulate reality. This is just what I see and hear.

Only shallow people insist on disbelief. You and I know better. We understand how reality is invented. A person sits in a room and thinks a thought and it bleeds out into the world. Every thought is permitted. And there's no longer a moral or spatial distinction between thinking and acting.

Everything is supposed to be something. But it never is. That's the nature of existence.

American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.

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