Whatever goes wrong can be used to your advantage, providing it goes wrong enough.
The most useful thing about art is it's uselessness.
Love is dope, not chicken soup.
A lot of my work comes from what in Asia is called the 'mind of wonder.' There is not a lot of 'mind of wonder' writing in contemporary Western literature. I think that's what appeals to the readers who are my fans.
Sometimes one gets the feeling that life still thinks it's living in Paris in the '30s.
If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering.