Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don't fit in?

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

Your hand is a warm stone I hold between two words.

I tried for the longest time to find out what deconstructionism was. Nobody was able to explain it to me clearly. The best answer I got was from a writer, who said, 'Honey, it's bad news for you and me.

I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light.

We all know that a book is not really a person. It isn’t a human being. But if you are a lover of books as books – as objects, that is – and ignore the human element in them – that is, their voices – you will be committing an error of the soul, because you will be an idolator, or else a fetishist.

My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.