I'm wonderfully self-lacerating, probably to my character's detriment. I'm terribly open to critique.

Anything processed by memory is fiction.

My medium is prose, not the novel.

Everything I write, I believe instinctively, is to some extent collage. Meaning, ultimately, is a matter of adjacent data.

I don’t know what’s the matter with me, why I’m so adept at distance, why I feel so remote from things, why life feels like a rumor.

A book should either allow us to escape existence or teach us how to endure it.

To me, the moment you're talking about nonfiction you're talking about reality.

If I'm reading a book and it seems truly interesting, I tend to start reading back to front in order not to be too deeply under the sway of progress.

Momentum, in literary mosaic, derives not from narrative but from the subtle, progressive buildup of thematic resonances.

The absence of plot leaves the reader room to think about other things.

Resolution and conclusion are inherent in a plot-driven narrative.

Leadership is an art expressed by the demonstration of characters worthy of immitation, emulation and inspiration. It is neither a title nor a postion.

By sight and observation and thought, with the help of the camera, and the addition of the date of the year, we can hold fast the history of the world.

I say that man is entitled to his own happiness and that he must achieve it himself. But that he cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy.

One of the great things going on right now is social media and you get a real sense, immediately, about what people are feeling and thinking.

As for his secret to staying married: "My wife tells me that if I ever decide to leave, she is coming with me."

I've achieved many of my dreams, and I want to see that some others get a chance to, especially younger Texans.

Everything I know, I write about. My only research is what I did.

For it is not the shape, but their use, that makes them angels.

Mushrooms can be very fancy. It's the closest you can get to eating dirt.

We could move catalog, if he'd only die quicker.