I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not.

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

Revelation is where all crazy people end up. It's the last stop on the nutso express.

I used to take that God's-eye view as a comfort when I was a child. I'd think, "Well, we couldn't find the world meaningful at all if it weren't for death." Of course, that is the smuggest and most intolerable of all perspectives because I'm not suffering from the death or the pain.

If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time.

- You look fine. - Right. I look fine. Except I don't, said Zora, tugging sadly at her man's nightshirt. This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn't be able to protect them from self-disgust.

English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.