I am a professor who writes novels on Sundays

Monsters exist because they are part of the divine plan, and in the horrible features of those same monsters the power of the creator is revealed.

Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

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

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

Today I realize that many recent exercises in "deconstructive reading" read as if inspired by my parody. This is parody's mission: it must never be afraid of going too far. If its aim is true, it simply heralds what others will later produce, unblushing, with impassive and assertive gravity.

The more elusive and ambiguous a symbol is, the more it gains significance and power.