Architecture is not about space but about time.

It's not the bullet that kills you, it's the hole.

I'm using my own person in pieces, but I'm trying to turn my person into a nonperson in the sense of a person without will, without volition. I'm subjecting myself to a scheme.

I was always fascinated by diagramming a sentence. Because that is going into a space, going into a world of language.

Maybe I had to stop photographing so that I could learn to touch.

Public space can be a lot better with some private space to contradict it and vice versa. It keeps the system alive. If the system is just one thing, then it's closed and it eventually dies.

I didn't want to admit that I was a performer. A performer meant spotlights - a performer had connotations of theater. I would have preferred agent to performer.

As a kid I learned notions of art and notions of not having any money.

I should have been out there having a wild time like all the other girls my age, but I wasn't. I was going home every night to what was, initially, a very happy marriage.

My family tends to be pretty alcoholic and drug-addicted.

Music, the knife without a hilt.

I do write about people who are complex and are striving with something and can't quite get past their own stuff, which would be a proxy for myself because that's what the deal is with me.

The minute you walk through the door and your kid runs into your arms, you're smacked in the face with a dose of reality: It's like, this is my real life.

When you are writing a character, what the character says is obviously crucial. But what the character doesn't say is absolutely as important as his words.

This is one of those big, fat paperbacks, intended to while away a monsoon or two, which, if thrown with a good overarm action, will bring a water buffalo to its knees.

I think we really have to ask ourselves, are we really using to children to promote ourselves?

Sometimes the silences, the gaps, tell us more than anything else.

I'm a guy who likes to watch something cool, creepy and suspenseful and there is no show to watch as an adult that would scare me at for even four seconds.