What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has become my trademark.

Writing is a necessity and often a pleasure, but at the same time, it can be a great burden and a terrible struggle.

I believe that written stories will continue to survive because they answer an essential human need. I think movies might disappear before the novel disappears, because the novel is really one of the only places in the world where two strangers can meet on terms of absolute intimacy.

Develop your pawns or Hulk will smash.

Consensual reality is both fragile and elastic, and it heals like the skin of a bubble.

Poetry is supposed to be musical. But people don't understand prose. They're so used to reading journalism - clunky, functional sentences that convey factual information - facts, more than just the surfaces of things.

Discomfort is very much part of my master plan.