I write in spurts. I write when I have to because the pressure builds up and I feel enough confidence that something has matured in my head and I can write it down. But once something is really under way, I don't want to do anything else. I don't go out, much of the time I forget to eat, I sleep very little. It's a very undisciplined way of working and makes me not very prolific. But I'm too interested in many other things.

By furnishing this already crowded world with a duplicate one of images, photography makes us feel that the world is more available than it really is.

The only interesting ideas are heresies

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.

The unit of the poet is the word, the unit of the prose writer is the sentence.

Everything has changed and nothing is changed.

Perversity is the muse of modern literature.