Love And Life Belongs To Great Risk.

With The Novels, I Usually Start From Something In My Own Life That I Can't Resolve, So I Turn It Into A Metaphor And For Months Or Sometimes Years I'll Exhaust All Of My Emotional Reaction To This Issue By Making It Enormous On The Page.

Am I Sleeping? Have I Slept At All? This Is Insomnia.

You're Safe Because You're So Trapped Inside Your Culture. Anything You Can Conceive Of Is Fine Because You Can Conceive Of It.

It's Nice To See Something More Pathetic Than I Feel Right Now.

I Want To Find Something Else, Unknowable, Some Place That's Not On The Map. A Real Adventure.