I like to think - knowing that it's an enabling fiction - of those moments as fragments from a world to come, a world where price isn't the only measure of value.

When the narrator feels like an octopus, when he says his limbs are starting to multiply, he means he has inklings of orders of perception beyond his individual body.

Art has to offer something other than stylized despair.

I'm defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre.

I’ll work my way from irony to sincerity in the sinking city, a would-be Whitman of the vulnerable grid.

Shaving is a way to start the workday by ritually not cutting your throat when you've the chance.

The transpersonal is more awe-inspiring, more exciting than the thing we confuse it for.

I came to realize that far more important to me than any plot or conventional sense was the sheer directionality I felt while reading prose, the texture of time as it passed, life's white machine.

I have no interest in artists who are purely affirmative, who've made a commercialized fetish of the culture's stupidity.

Many of the left thinkers that really matter to me - that formed a big part of my thinking about politics and art - emphasize how capitalism is a totality, how there's no escape from it, no outside.

Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in weak short stories or novels.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not

If you let people believe that you are weak, sooner or later you’re going to have to kill them.

[Margaret Thatcher] scorned and despised other women, and predicated her values entirely on the values of her father, a small town shopkeeper.

Our vision is for pervasive computing.

One of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.

If the culture doesn't work, don't buy it.

More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but thats more like a spice.

Having traveled a lot and met people from different horizons it makes you more humble and ready to listen.

When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or a person, don't be surprised if they learn their lesson.

Music, moody food Of us that trade in love.