I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise.

Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity

What I don't like about America is not necessarily an American thing; it's a capitalist thing. This is the Vatican of capitalism.

The balls do not make a writer.

To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes.

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

Memory narrativises itself.