I still do believe that form and content are very much related. I think throwing away some of the rule books on that is a good thing.

Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the dead.

Boring people don't know they're boring. That's the problem with boring people.

I'm trying always to leave out what I think is extraneous. And to find what I think is the most wonderful language to make a beautiful sentence.

I think it's true that unless human beings experience something, they simply don't understand what people are going through.

I'm the author of my own misery.

I don't think anybody says to Coetzee or Dostoyevsky or Kafka, "Your characters aren't likeable." It's not about your character winning a popularity contest. That's not the writer's job.

It's not the writer who determines how good she is anyway. Writers don't determine that. It's readers who determine that.

Do the obvious, you won't forget it. Do the obvious, you won't regret it. Obvious, obvious, obvious.

Nonfiction gives you subjects. Writing fiction I can have more fun, but I have to invent my subject.

Without curiosity a writer is dead.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

I have a company attitude about my work. I don't like to do just one thing I like to do a lot of things.

Making money is pretty pointless and it needs constant attention.

Illuminate the opposition.

Holy Men! Holy Cabbages! Holy Bean Pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat?

There's no way to release yourself from a memory. It ends when it wants to end, whether it's in a flash or long after you've begged it to stop.

Anyone who thinks they're indispensible is fooling themselves.

Once form has been smashed, it has been smashed for good, and once a forbidden subject has been released, it has been released for good.

Patience is one of the most valuable attributes in investing.

Always in search of the question that might make you ask me one in return