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“Every quality I despise in George Bush is a quality I despise in myself. He is my worst self realized.”

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People like Ian McEwan and Jonathan Franzen completely bore me.

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You're one of 6.5 billion people now on the planet, and 99.9 percent of your genes are the same as everyone else's.

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Your art is most alive and dangerous when you use it against yourself. That's why I pick at my scabs.

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

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Swimming is by far the best tonic I've found for my back. I'm not a good swimmer - I do the breaststroke or elementary…

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I've always liked this idea that writing should comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable to create trouble. The value of a work of…

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The beauty of reality-based art - art underwritten by reality hunger - is that it's perfectly situated between life itself and (unattainable) "life as…

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“A great book allows me to leap over that wall: in a deep, significant conversation with another consciousness, I feel human and unalone.”

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The novel is dead. Long live the antinovel, built from scraps.

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