Technology is transforming everything. Who knows what it's doing, we don't really understand it.

I was always a reader. In the fifth grade, I got some sort of prize for having read hundreds of books from the library.

You probably have to split yourself in various ways just in order to survive, and to think of yourself as a multitude.

Historically, there are hierarchies of purity. Certain aspects of poetry are very, very pure. The lyric poem can't be anything but the lyric poem.

The sun does what it does because the earth tilts.

You don't think of yourself as your external representation, or even your national origin or anything like that. You don't reduce yourself to that. That's kind of unthinkable.

Orwell says somewhere that no one ever writes the real story of their life. The real story of a life is the story of its humiliations.