Bread and books: food for the body and food for the soul - what could be more worthy of our respect, and even love?

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

Thomas Pynchon looks exactly like Thomas Pynchon should look. He is tall, he wears lumberjack shirts and blue jeans. He has Albert Einstein white hair and Bugs Bunny front teeth.

Freedom to reject is the only freedom.

I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do.

The act of migration puts into crisis everything about the migrating individual or group, everything about identity and selfhood and culture and belief. So if this is a novel about migration it must be that act of putting in question. It must perform the crisis it describes.

The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.