My medium is prose, not the novel.

Anything processed by memory is fiction.

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.

I take literature as a really serious human activity. It's not just a playful thing. It can be hilarious and wonderful and performative, but I think it's really serious.

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

Greatest companion is found in reading great books.

Your best is good enough.

When I was a little kid, I realized that if you say any word over and over fast enough, it loses all it's meaning.

...she had regained what I thought she had lost forever, the magical sadness which had drawn me to her, the thwarted look that had seemed to say, "Surely I was made for some other purpose than this?

Selling is the easiest job in the world if you work it hard-but the hardest job in the world if you try to work it easy.

I'm a huge electronic-music fan.

If you can't take a hit, you're not going to last long, that's for sure.

Emotion is always new and the word has always served; therein lies the difficulty of expressing emotion.

The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.