Mystical additions and subtractions always come out the way you want.

I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.

If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.

I have always been fascinated by paranoid people imagining conspiracies. I am fascinated by this in a critical way.

What we honor as prudence in our elders is simply panic in action.

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.

What did I really think fifteen years ago? A nonbeliever, I felt guilty in the midst of all those believers. And since it seemed to me that they were in the right, I decided to believe, as you might decide to take an aspirin: It can't hurt and you might get better.