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

Language itself is a mask. It's the first mask in the series of invented selves - they've come right out of language. The way you speak changes you, because when you are speaking, you are representing yourself in a certain way.

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.

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.

These new theories of the universe, that there are multiple universes just bubbling up constantly - it's all pretty wild.

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

We all think of ourselves as our subjectivity, our consciousness.