Discomfort is very much part of my master plan.

Making books has always felt very connected to my bookselling experience, that of wanting to draw people's attention to things that I liked, to shape things that I liked into new shapes.

What's beautiful about art is that it circumscribes a space, a physical and mental space. If you try to put the entire world into every page, you turn out chaos.

I hate libraries for the way they put stickers on things. I don't approve of folding over pages, or of writing in books. God, forget scissors - that's beyond the pale.

You can't be deep without a surface

Writing is a private discipline, in a field of companions.

Nerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We're all nerds, on one subject or another.