I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

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Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.

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People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

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There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

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There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

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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?

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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 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.

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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.

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I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when it moves into three dimensions?

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