I don't think anything needs to happen in a book.

The books turn out to be about things afterwards. I don't go into them with concepts, for the most part.

Sunday was always the best of days for being the self you had intended to be, but were not, for one reason or another.

We tire differently if we love or love not.

If he acts, if he doesn't, it's meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all.

Clarity is the most important thing to me - in thinking - and so I try in the books to be as clear as possible.

Americans are genuinely and profoundly anti-intellectual. They are especially so in their pleasure-seeking, which is epically banal.