You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you worry you are an interchangeable cog.

Here's my theory about meetings and life: the three things you can't fake are erections, competence and creativity.

I like having a beard. My beard changes my face shape and allows me to see in it family members who I love and can't see otherwise.

Starved for affection, terrified of abandonment, I began to wonder if sex was really just an excuse to look deeply into another human being's eyes.

My writing process is ritualized and monotonous, but there's no other way to get the job done. All other fiction writers I've met say the same thing.

I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints... I think that, as you age, you tend to gravitate towards the classics, but those aren't the books that give you the same sort of hope for the world that a cherished book does.

Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing.