"We're not dreamers. We're awaking from a dream turning into a nightmare. We're not destroying anything. We're watching the system destroy itself."

"I hate writing. I so intensely hate writing—I cannot tell you how much."

"I am a communist. I am not ashamed. I am proud."

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

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