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"I work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and pretend I'm part of the human world."
"The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory."
"I've never related to the work geek at all-it sounds much more horrible than nerd. Like a freak biting a chicken's head off in a sideshow."
"I just noticed recently that in one book after another I seem to find an excuse to find some character who, to put it idiotically simply, is allowed to talk crazy."
"When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed."
"I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts."
"I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me."
"The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals."
"I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously."
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