When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.
Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.
There's never a dearth of reasons to shoot at the President.
I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.
I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.
In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.
I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.
True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to.
I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like.
Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.
One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.
I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it.
The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?