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.

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.

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.

I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.

Just been poisoned by my gran. Nothing says Christmas better than familicide and anaphylactic shock.

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

You could not stop the winds and you could not stop Time. It went on and on, -and on.

I'm partly obsessed by aging gracefully.

I went to the UN and even the guidebook was spineless.

It's all experience; not anything original

I believe in freedom of expression, and I believe that societies thrive when they permit freedom of expression.

The black people in this country are taught that their religion and the best religion is the religion of Islam, and when one accepts the religion of Islam, he's known as a Muslim.

Egyptians believe in the power of the sunrise. They believe each morning begins not just a new day, but a new world.