"Happiness is a very dangerous category. It's a kind of ideological blackmail."

"We are all living in the matrix, but we don't know it."

"The most dangerous illusion is that we are free."

"The only way to survive such shitty times, if you ask me, is to write and read big, fat books, you know?"

"I don't think. I just write. And then I read what I wrote and I say, 'Ah, that's what I think!'"