If you have information you've got the world by the balls. But we have to convert information into knowledge in order to make it humanly useful.

You have to suspend thinking in narratives. The moment you are conscious of yourself the gap opens up. And in this gap, stories are generated.

Every artist, writers included, have an ethics and an aesthetics, whether they can formulate them or not. I happen to think that it is good to be able to formulate - it is good to know what you are doing and to be able to talk about it.

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

The privilege of a middle-class, stable, bourgeois life is that you can pretend that you are not complicated and project yourself as a solid, uncomplicated person, with refined life goals and achievements.

You devise ways to tell a story that complies with your sensibility. Style and method are really extensions of your present sensibility.

There's no connection between consumption of art and moral stamina at all.