Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking.

I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs.

Listening doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that others don't know you know.

Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges.

Simple mechanisms do not love.

I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early poetry, and bad poets publish it. Thankfully I gave up rather quickly.

If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.