I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.

I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not.

I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.

I like to write about painting because I think visually. I see my writing as blocks of color before it forms itself. I think I also care about painting because I'm not musical. Painting to me is not a metaphor for writing, but something people do that can never be reduced to words.

I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.

It's a terrible poison, writing.