If I'm reading a book and it seems truly interesting, I tend to start reading back to front in order not to be too deeply under the sway of progress.

I take literature as a really serious human activity. It's not just a playful thing. It can be hilarious and wonderful and performative, but I think it's really serious.

The absence of plot leaves the reader room to think about other things.

I don’t know what’s the matter with me, why I’m so adept at distance, why I feel so remote from things, why life feels like a rumor.

Everything I write, I believe instinctively, is to some extent collage. Meaning, ultimately, is a matter of adjacent data.

Momentum, in literary mosaic, derives not from narrative but from the subtle, progressive buildup of thematic resonances.

You're one of 6.5 billion people now on the planet, and 99.9 percent of your genes are the same as everyone else's.