I think it's what fiction is for: to illuminate that gap between our secret selves and our more visible and apparent ones.

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.

It's hard enough to make a novel a novel. I wouldn't know how to make it something else at the same time

I think the publishing industry is dismayingly like the movie business. It grows more corporate by the day.

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

There was a moment when the Berlin Wall came down and some people felt, "Oh capitalism won. That's the ideology we can believe in now."

Good fiction necessarily encompasses our limited understandings of one another, and of ourselves.