One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe.

I'm releasing myself from the responsibility of claiming to know when something is good and when it isn't.

I love to be alone, I find it necessary, but I don't know if that's just how I am or if it's an essential ingredient to making, to art. Certainly on a practical level it is. But on the other hand, I think it's a myth that the creative inspiration is locked up inside the person and just needs a quiet space and the right "serious" brooding moment to get released.

It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.

A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made men curious.

I don't quite see the 20th century as one of chaos. But I believe in certain inevitable outcomes of a materialist nature.

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