"What I write about has such an intense hold on me, and seems so inappropriate to the world I live in, that it’s left me deeply confused and split. My life and my work have been about trying to negotiate between my internal world and my external world… If I have any authority, it derives from my kind of obsessive focus on building a craft that will get me as close as humanly possible to these things that would destroy me if I didn’t have language to protect me."
Dennis Cooper, in an interview with Robert Glück