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

…maybe the whole Internet will simply become like Facebook: falsely jolly, fake-friendly, self-promoting, slickly disingenuous….” - Zadie Smith

I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.

Jerome said, It's like, a family doesn't work anymore when everyone in it is more miserable than they would be if they were alone, You know?

Don't we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls.

You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.

All tastes are expressions of belief.