The young-old polarization and the male-female polarization are perhaps the two leading stereotypes that imprison people.

I like to feel dumb. That’s how I know there’s more in the world than me.

What interests me is to understand the nature of the modern.

If I thought that what I'm doing when I write is expressing myself, I'd junk the typewriter. Writing is a much more complicated activity that that.

Why wouldn't you write to escape yourself as much as you might write to express yourself? It's far more interesting to write about others.

The white race is the cancer of human history.

To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing - a hand worker in an era of mass production.