I hate my life. I'm at the point where I want to hear about other people's lives. it's like switching from fiction to biography.

I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.

In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.

What you see is not what we see. What you see is distracted by memory, by being who you are, all this time, for all these years.

Some people are larger than life. Hitler is larger than death.

Be willing to die for your beliefs, or computer printouts of your beliefs.

Your brain has a trillion neurons and every neuron has ten thousand little dendrites. The system of inter-communication is awe-inspiring.