I Turn And I Slowly Walk Away

I Always Wanted To Write A Book About La, A Big Ambitious Book. Nobody Had Ever Really Done It With La- Treating The City Seriously As A Major Economic And Cultural Power, As The Embodiment Of 21st Century America.

I Regretted Making A Comment About Dave Eggers. I’ve Never Said Anything About Mcsweeneys Except That I Admire What It Is, And I Think It’s Great That They Keep People Interested In Literature.

The Best Stories Are Universal Stories That Have Been Told For As Long As Humanity Has Existed It's Just Figuring Out New Ways To Do It, With Language, With Structure. And So I'm Always Trying To Do That.

The Afternoon And The Early Evening Slide By In A Lidded Daze Where The Ability To Think In Any Identifiable Way Disappears And Where Every Moment Seems To Be An Eternity.

I Will Not Allow People To Impose Rules On Me That Don't Make Sense To Me. And I Live And Work Very Much Outside The Literary World And The Literary System. What They Think And What They Believe And What Their Rules Are Mean Nothing To Me.