I don't mind arguing with myself. It's when I lose that it bothers me.

In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.

We don't consider the roles that we're taking in making the world the way it is.

The job of taste was to thin the insane torrent of human creativity down to manageable levels. But the job of appetite was never to be happy with taste.

This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.

I don't mind arguing with myself. It's when I lose that it bothers me.

The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.