Sacrificing one's life on the altar of literature is in some ways like sacrificing a goat to some malicious spirit. It's not always a humane or necessary decision.

I was so very interested in literature and so relatively uninterested in the movies when I was a teenager.

It's hard to imagine there's a place for great writing inside a multinational conglomerate.

Great books are written from a sense that there is nothing to lose.

These are the kind of movies that only a real apparatchik, someone who thinks that corporations are people, could love.

Even though I think writers can sometimes thrive from being misread. It can give them something to push off of.

I think being central to the culture is overrated. Who really gives a damn if something is popular? Jay-Z isn't actually any better than James Joyce even though more people understand him.