Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened.

Time is not outside us, but inside. Only we live with past, present, and future, and the present is too brief to experience anyway; it is retained afterward and then it is either codified or it slips into amnesia.

We chart delusions through collective agreement.

The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and ends.

Every one of us is prone to implicit sexual prejudices, including women.

Great books are the ones that are urgent, life-changing, the ones that crack open the reader’s skull and heart.

I think that it's important for people to read philosophy and literature is not because I think everyone should be a well-rounded human being, but because it will help you think better about what you are doing.