“I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.”
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I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.
Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.
Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off the belief it inspires is what counts.
People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?