You don’t have the slightest idea of what it means to write a scene and a character in the English language, with images and words chock full of received meaning.

No matter how enormous a novel may become, the physical act of reading determines that there's no way it can become a communal experience. To read is intimate. It's almost masturbatory.

Some people have things written all over their faces; the big guy had a couple of words misspelled in crayon on his.

I want what we all want," said Carl. "To move certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior world, to see if they can be embraced.

I try not to become too regular an addict of any one subculture.

Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit.

I'm a serial deconstructor of my own authority in certain areas.