Evil is the refusal to see one's self in others.

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.

The oldest principle of composition: repeat everything.

The loneliness of writing is that you baffle your friends and change the lives of strangers.

Reading is the last act of secular prayer.

My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that.

Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race.