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.

I’ve always been uninterested in boundaries or quarantines between tastes and types, between mediums and genres.

Good films demand to be looked at several times in order to be observed completely.

I had an all-Fear of Music iPod, just versions of the 11 songs from the record. No other songs allowed.

Apparently Brooklyn needn't always push itself to be something else, something conscious and anxious, something pointed toward Manhattan.... Brooklyn might sometimes also be pleased, as here on Flatbush, to be its grubby, enduring self.

I don't write about anything I don't love even if that love sometimes gets all screwed up and tormented.

It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.