Style is made up of whatever an author can't avoid doing.

Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in but which look pretty when you see them under a leaf in the morning dew, and in the elegant way that they connect to one another, each to each.

I am fascinated a) by transgressive art and b) what happens beyond the boundaries.

It was a dream, and in dreams you have no choices: either there are no decisions to be made, or they were made for you long before ever the dream began.

I kept starting 'Anansi Boys' as a movie and stopping, and eventually wrote the novel and was happy.

I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all.

You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear.