I do have pleasure when I'm writing. I mean, I'm aware of pleasure. And sometimes I make myself laugh, with a joke or something; or I feel gleeful.

I find that the mask of the critic is to have distance.

Artists are expected to talk about their work but writers aren't expected to talk about their writing.

There is an ineffable but fatal difference in attitude between people behaving naturally and people behaving naturally for a camera.

To me, the greatest artists are almost entirely non-verbal.

Comic books, graphic novels, involve constant toggling and it's hard work. You get tired reading comic books, but you never get tired looking at pictures or reading words.

With art criticism it's difficult to discuss beauty, to assess it, because there's always the possibility that we're insane.