I end up writing something every day, since I develop six or seven things at the same time - soccer columns, this and that.

There's no bad writing; you did something. I was operating inside language, and I did something. I'm not ashamed of it.

I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability — the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.

There's something in psychology called the narrative paradigm, which essentially means that we think of our lives as stories in which we are the main characters.

There are moments in life when it is all turned inside out--what is real becomes unreal, what is unreal becomes tangible, and all your levelheaded efforts to keep a tight ontological control are rendered silly and indulgent.

I cannot think of a country in which I would be happy with the government and dominant ideology and available propaganda.

The way I think of my work is that I have to think up the way to tell a story, starting from scratch. The changes in the industry concern me in a general way because I think civilization is doomed.