You cannot observe people through an ideology. Your ideology observes for you.

Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence of an enigmatic thing.

When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.

When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.

The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open.

I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive.

Let's hope the first comes first.