I'm always interested in the way people speak and move in their environment, in a very particular environment. I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the any novel is a local thing always.

It's gotten to a point where everybody is concerned about their rights and nobody is concerned about their duties.

When the male organ of a man stands erect, two thirds of his intelect go away. And one third of his religion.

Under every friendship there is a difficult sentence that must be said, in order that the friendship can be survived.

The novel leads you places that you never could have gotten to otherwise.

An essential part of power is the freedom not to think too deeply

When I see my friends engaging in a Twitter war for an afternoon, I think that would destroy me for a month.