Anything processed by memory is fiction.

My medium is prose, not the novel.

Everything I write, I believe instinctively, is to some extent collage. Meaning, ultimately, is a matter of adjacent data.

I don’t know what’s the matter with me, why I’m so adept at distance, why I feel so remote from things, why life feels like a rumor.

A book should either allow us to escape existence or teach us how to endure it.

To me, the moment you're talking about nonfiction you're talking about reality.

If I'm reading a book and it seems truly interesting, I tend to start reading back to front in order not to be too deeply under the sway of progress.

Momentum, in literary mosaic, derives not from narrative but from the subtle, progressive buildup of thematic resonances.

The absence of plot leaves the reader room to think about other things.

Resolution and conclusion are inherent in a plot-driven narrative.

I take literature as a really serious human activity. It's not just a playful thing. It can be hilarious and wonderful and performative, but I think it's really serious.

You only think women are inferior when your own mother is failure.

What is life without its angles of difficulty and defeat, and its tip of triumph and power?

Nuclear holocaust would be like no other.

Can you collect chaos? Not collecting, that is the ultimate gathering. What can you gather without gathering yourself.

Comfort zones are deadly zones because you lose your true potential of what you can be, you start going with the status quo.

Are you worried about pressure? I look at it this way: Pressure is having to do something you are not totally prepared to do.

Everybody tends to merge his identity with other people at the speed of light. It's called being mass man.

I truly would love to be a designer-label girl, but I am very much High Street.

At certain times, a silent mind is very important, but 'silent' does not mean closed. The silent mind is an alert, awakened mind; a mind seeking the nature of reality.

When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.