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

A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.

There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.

Only an unhinged movie survives as a disconnected series of images, of peaks, of visual icebergs. It should display not one central idea but many. It should not reveal a coherent philosophy of composition. It must live on, and because of, its glorious ricketiness.

People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.

Nothing can shake my belief that this world is the fruit of a dark god whose shadow I extend.