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"Certainly it constitutes bad news when the people who agree with you are buggier than batshit."

"I think this goes more to the idea of 'relentless irony' than 'divine providence."

"It is only because of their stupidity that they are able to be so sure of themselves."

"People who always arrive early aren't worth waiting for."

"Don't underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable."
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"It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art."

"There is something magical to me about literature and fiction and I think it can do things not only that pop culture cannot do but that are urgent now: one is that by creating a character in a work of fiction you can allow a reader to leap over the wall of self and to allow him to imagine himself not only somewhere else but someone else in a way that television and movies, in a way that no other form can do. I think people are essentially lonely and alone and frightened of being alone."

"I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art."

"A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane."

"The fraud part of me was always there, just as a puzzle piece, objectively speaking, is a true piece of the puzzle even before you see how it fits."

"I have always tried to avoid talking to pretty girls, because pretty girls have a vicious effect on me in which every part of my brain is shut down except for the part that says unbelievably stupid things and the part that is aware that I am saying unbelievably stupid things."
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