We've clearly entered a period in which the analog of text is no longer important or relevant. All text will be electronic. I accept that fact. My house has thousands of books in it, and I've started to look at them completely differently. They now seem to me to be like antiquarian objects. Their use value has become negligible to me because I'm perfectly happy to read on an e-reader.

I always wanted to write fiction. Always. As far back as I can remember it's been integral to my sense of myself - everything else was always a displacement activity.

The fictional work is a kind of actor that wears a satirical garb but can put on other costumes as well.

Whatever respect photography may once have deserved is now superfluous in view of its own superfluity.

Some people have human muses - mine is a city. I feel a startling ambivalence towards London, but for better or worse my work has come utterly to depend upon it.

As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience of intoxification.

There is a deep sadness to American poverty, greater than the sadness of any other kind. It's because America has such an ideology of success.