Before Pop Art, There Was Such A

For Me, Wellbehaved Books With Neat Plots And Worked-out Endings Seem Somewhat Quaint In The Face Of The Largely Incoherent Reality Of Modern Life; And Then Again Fiction, At Least As I Write It And Think Of It, Is A Kind Of Religious Meditation In Which Language Is The Final Enlightenment, And It Is Language, In Its Beauty, Its Ambiguity And Its Shifting Textures, That Drives My Work.

When You Try To Unravel Something You've Written, You Belittle It In A Way. It Was Created As A Mystery.

Technology And Violence Are Interdependent.

American Writers Ought To Stand And Live In The Margins, And Be More Dangerous.

It's Healthier To Reject Certain Cautions Than Fall In Line.