I hate [ebooks]. It's like making believe there's another kind of sex. There isn't another kind of sex. There isn't another kind of book! A book is a book is a book.

As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.

I thought that if I were going into old age I would want to do what [Giuseppe] Verdi did, which is to write extraordinary things, and to really find myself.

I don't want to lose hope.

Childhood is cannibals and psychotics vomiting in your mouth!

And the walls became the world all around.

There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.