I'm bright, but there are lots of bright writers and people everywhere. In no way, at no point do I think I'm better than them.

The balls do not make a writer.

Your memories become fantasies if they are not shared, and your life in all its triviality becomes a legend.

We hated pretentiousness; it was a form of self-hatred.

There is a point in fighting. There is a point in struggle. Not wholesale revolution, maybe, that might not be possible, an absolutely just society, but there are plenty of spaces and places where it's worth putting up a fight.

I actually didn't listen to the Beatles song 'Nowhere Man' when I was writing my book of the same name. What I listened to a lot was 'Abbey Road.' Its disjointedness and its readiness to confuse only to delight were inspiring to me.

I am just like everybody else...because there is nobody like me in the whole world.