I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.

You say you want to talk, But you don't . You stonewall me.

All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.

I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of time is so inconceivable to me.

Where I come from," said Archie, "a bloke likes to get to know a girl before he marries her." "Where you come from it is customary to boil vegetables until they fall apart. This does not mean," said Samad tersely, "that it is a good idea.

I don't actually believe in the extension of consciousness after death.

It's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on the globe.