I want to make money, and I would like to have a lot of money, but I still believe that the only reason to write is that somehow it will make something or somebody better.

Anything that might come under arts should not be subject to the whims of the idiotic market because the market's stupid, and it gravitates toward simplicity - towards essentializing things so they can be sold.

Nobody deserves death, yet everybody gets it.

The balls do not make a writer.

Sometimes I don't write at all. Someone once asked me, "What do you do when you're not writing?" And I said, "I idle."

When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.

As long as there are living human beings, there will be language and stories.