People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function.

I can't bear living in this huge beautiful world and not try to imitate it as best I can.

maybe the meaning of life lies in looking for it

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

I'm from a time and place where bigheadedness was a really savage crime, and you'd get cut down for it by your peers and parents.

It's true, reading too many novels makes you go blind.

She has to lose her pre-Copernican view of a universe revolving around herself.