If culture did not filter, it would be inane - as inane as the formless, boundless Internet is on its own. And if we all possessed the boundless knowledge of the Web, we would be idiots! Culture is an instrument for making a hierarchical system of intellectual labor.

When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.

Ugliness is more inventive than beauty. Beauty always follows certain camps. I think it's more amusing - ugliness - than beauty.

I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person.

The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book.

For many years I have devoted articles and essays to newspapers, from the inside. So criticism of the newspapers was a topic that I practiced for a long time.

I love the smell of book ink in the morning.