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.
I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.
There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.
I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.