What Fiction And Art Can Do, Particularly

The More You Lose, The More Is To Be Lost, Yet It Matters Less.

I Know A Lot Of People In The City, At All Levels, Horizontally And Vertically - And That To Me Is A Privilege, To Me As A Person But Also A Writer. I've Dined With Billionaires, And I Play Soccer With Busboys.

I Want A Book To Contain A World - Indeed The World. Writing Is My Main Means Of Engagement With The World And I Want The Scars Of That Engagement To Be Left In The Language.

God Knows Our Despair. God Wants His Chosen People To Live In Peace. God Loves Life, Cares Less About Death. We Need To Live. I Want To Live, I Want My Children To Live. Everyone I Know Wants To Live. You Have To Ask Yourself What Is More Important To You, Life Is Death. What Is This World About - Life Or Death?

We Hated Pretentiousness; It Was A Form Of Self-hatred.