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"I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence."
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"The world system is employment."

"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."
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"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."

"Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work."
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"I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs."

"The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?"

"I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it."

"I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism."

"Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there."

"The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence."

"I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence."

"I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore."
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