I Would Never Write In Response To

You Live In A Tower That Soars To Heaven And Goes Unpunished By God.

Fear Is Self-awareness Raised To A Higher Level.

Everything's A Scandal. Dying's A Scandal. But We All Do It.

I Felt Joyce Was An Influence On My Fiction, But In A Very General Way, As A Kind Of Inspiration And A Model For The Beauty Of Language.

The Novel Is The Dream Release, The Suspension Of Reality That History Needs To Escape Its Own Brutal Confinements.