America's all about the various voices, right? When we all speak with a common voice we verge on fascism, which is militaristic, and fundamentally anti-American.

Genre categorization is a capitalist (rather than artistic) thing, a symptom of marketing and major-chain bookshelf placement.

Having a voice unlike another means you've "found yourself" as a writer.

I don't have a philosophy. I have an instinct. I accept stuff that I like.

The Internet is perfect for delivering large blocks of text to people throughout the world for free. That's a plus. The downside is the ADD, the Internet-addled Attention Deficit Disorder.

The Web ultimately is a medium used by real offline people, and as such, it'll probably be whatever we are.

There's a ton of good art and music and writing out there offline among a ton of trash, and the same goes with what's online.

If you want to change things in the USA it's best not to spend all your time writing but to take action against the ol' sea of troubles.

Online writing is supplementary, complementary, another part of the whole, something that's only as important as one's investment in it.

I'm an only child and an American and am wholly in favor of uniqueness of voice in everything, especially music and writing.

The problem with the term "The New Fiction" is that the fiction will inevitably be old. The same could have been said about the work of any generation of writers.

No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.

I really am a character actor, in my heart of hearts, because I really do like developing characters and painting a past for them.

Choice is nothing in itself; everything depends on what one is able to choose.

Run, jump, shout, but do not sin.

[John Hurt] just really gifted, and I had a great time working with him and [am] very lucky to have worked with him.

To have faith is to believe unconditionally.

Our neighbour's crop is always more fruitful and his cattle produce more milk than our own.

A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that.

The video maker doesn't easily face a blank page. Because the videomaker can run it either any way, this way or the other way and erase it if they don't like it and so on.

We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.