I want to write fiction that has no obvious message, that cannot be made smaller, that resists the single interpretation. That views morality as one force among many. That does not overly privilege love or treat it as a form of magic. That has to be swallowed whole. That neither offers nor resists consolation. That is not bound by the tenets of 'realism' or 'naturalism'. That does not set out to address anything. That is intuitive, respectful, playful, ambitious and tender. That arrives out of the total human encounter, as far as that can be gathered and held in language.