There's always tons of crap music people are trying to sell us - [it's] the same way with publishers and galleries.

I think maybe it's my personality. People don't like my face.

Most book things now (with a few exceptions) are just built around nice, safe books written for nice and safe book club readers. These are usually the books you see on display at Barnes and Noble. These Internet writers are like literary terrorists to me. They're training as we speak. They're getting ready to invade. They're building an army.

We like something because someone else liked it.

I'm sure we're going to find out one day that the brain is as worthless as the appendix.

So much of our culture is bought and manufactured - not to say great art can't come out of that. Some art is really amazing that is manufactured and sold, like action movies and stuff.

I think a pretty good modus operandi is to believe that everything we know is wrong. The stomach will be the key to depression or consciousness or we'll realize ants are smarter than people.