For example, you have these grotesque, hilarious, profane ghosts in the book [Lincoln in the Bardo]. Even the concept of talking ghosts is, from an aesthetic point of view, grotesque. But you seem compelled by that risk in order to get to the other end of the equation.

Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.

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

Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer.

(and Catholics give out forgiveness at about the same rate as politicians give out promises and whores give out)

It was a kiss from the past.

There's a perception that novels can't usually allow for your kind of absolute attention to detail.