Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind.

Good books, written by men or women, are ones in which you lose consciousness of the person writing the sentences.

Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on.

Depression is when you think there's nothing to be done. Fortunately I always think there's something to be done.

Memory changes as a person matures.

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

All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static.