The job of the novel is to be true to the confusion, but not so confusing that you turn the reader off.

When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.

Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.

I no longer want to live in an apartment furnished with forklifts and backhoes.

The job of the novel is to be true to the confusion, but not so confusing that you turn the reader off.

Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.

I wanted to apprentice myself to the dailiness of the war's beginning phase. It's truer and more frightening that way - when you're afloat on a little dingy in the midst of it all.