Anything processed by memory is fiction.

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.

Genre is a minimum security prison.

The beauty of reality-based art - art underwritten by reality hunger - is that it's perfectly situated between life itself and (unattainable) "life as art".

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

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.