Our culture is obsessed with real events because we experience hardly any.

Anything processed by memory is fiction.

My medium is prose, not the novel.

Everything I write, I believe instinctively, is to some extent collage. Meaning, ultimately, is a matter of adjacent data.

I don’t know what’s the matter with me, why I’m so adept at distance, why I feel so remote from things, why life feels like a rumor.

A book should either allow us to escape existence or teach us how to endure it.

To me, the moment you're talking about nonfiction you're talking about reality.

If I'm reading a book and it seems truly interesting, I tend to start reading back to front in order not to be too deeply under the sway of progress.

Momentum, in literary mosaic, derives not from narrative but from the subtle, progressive buildup of thematic resonances.

The absence of plot leaves the reader room to think about other things.

Resolution and conclusion are inherent in a plot-driven narrative.

No matter what accomplishments you make somebody helped you.

Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.

You may flunk your exams in school and still make it in life, but if you flunk life's exams, you're sunk!

A true desire is not to have but to be. We are whole creatures in potential, and the true purpose of desire is to unfold that wholeness, to become what we can be.

Play Mozart in memory of me - and I will hear you.

I constantly make lists and itineraries and then can't stick to any of them.

Love is the omnipresent force of the universe; it unifies energy and consciousness.

Civil servants take forever to do anything.

Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant.

I like to refer to my years with the Angels as the foundation of my career.