I always need huge amounts of time to do anything.

We're all walking around trying to deal with a certain amount of shame, to repress it. And we restrict our mental lives to smaller and smaller areas.

I'm a very spoiled writer. I need to be indolent, to waste a lot of paper. I'm inefficient.

I had no thought of being a writer. I never wanted to do anything. I'm tremendously lazy.

I suppose I'm always looking for a sort of acuity of perception either in my characters or about my characters.

Politics is a matter of human transaction. I consider absolutely everything political, because all fiction involves relationships between people, and relationships between people always include matters of power, of equity, of communication.