I Would Like To Provoke Ambiguous Responses

I Needed To Address That I've Had Some Profound Moral Shifts In My Own Life.

She Quoted A Dead Playwright And Called Me A Bullet With Nothing But A Future. She Understood My Lack Of Self-pity. She Knew Why I Despised Everything That Might Restrict My Forward Momentum. She Knew That Bullets Have No Conscience. They Speed Past Things And Miss Their Marks As Often As They Hit Them.

It's All Sex For Me. Politics Is Sex. Race Is Sex. It's The Novel. It's The Novel!

Noir Is Dead For Me Because Historically, I Think It's A Simple View. I've Taken It As Far As It Can Go. I Think I've Expanded On It A Great Deal, Taken It Further Than Any Other American Novelist.

It Was Easy Not To Think Of My Future; I Didn't Have One.