Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me

by Bill Hayes

“Are you conscious of your thoughts before language embodies them?”

“The most we can do is to write—intelligently, creatively, critically, evocatively—about what it is like living in the world at this time.”

“I say I love writing, but really it is thinking I love—that rush of thoughts—new connections in the brain being made. And it comes out of the blue.”