“Mine is not an obedient writing. I think that literature as any art has to be irreverent.”
“If there is any irreverence in my own work, I hope it is the irreverence I bear in mistrusting my own sincere self, which then sincerely mistrusts the irreverent me. If there is a bottom to this, I think it is a life’s work.”
“It's that a bit of irreverence is necessary to have any self-esteem at all. Not irreverence for people, but rather, for what other people think.”
“Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.”
“I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature…literature should be left to essayists. ”
“I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity.”