The beauty of simplicity is the complexity it attracts.

I like to think of myself as a fiction writer who liked art enough to write about it for a while, and then went on to his fiction.

Death is impatient and thoughtless. It barges into your room when you are right in the middle of something, and it doesn't bother to wipe its boots.

'Neotenty' is 'remaining young,' and it may be ironic that it is so little known, because human evolution has been dominated by it.

I am looking for the novelists whose writing is an extension of their intellect rather than an extension of their neurosis.

The rich are the most discriminated-against minority in the world. Openly or covertly, everybody hates the rich because, openly or covertly, everybody envies the rich. Me, I love the rich. Somebody has to love them. Sure, a lot o’ rich people are assholes, but believe me, a lot o’ poor people are assholes, too, and an asshole with money can at least pay for his own drinks.

Our world isn't made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of language.