My belief that the publishing industry is run by prigs and cowards dates back to many years before I even had the idea for the book.

Once you leave, you're no longer of that country, but you are never actually of the country that you go to, and if you go back, you're not anywhere. You never belong to anything.

I mean, many times your creative problem is accidentally your personal problem, but it's not quite the same.

I believe in free will.

I understand maybe some people are more impressionable than my hard, cynical self, but maybe they need to figure out how to be less of that.

I would never tell anybody to get a divorce.

Feminism now seems to be defined as success is defined: as being as good at capitalism as men are. I feel very estranged from it.