The kernel, the soul - let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances - is plagiarism.

I met someone who lives in an elevator.

Reading and writing are the same thing; it's just one's the more active and the other's the more passive. They flow into each other.

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

Discomfort is very much part of my master plan.

I hate feeling too complacent when I write. I like to be solving new problems.

What I'm constantly striving for in my prose is clarity. So that, ideally, the writing will become so transparent that the reader will forget that the medium of communication is language.