“Explaining the moment of connection between a reader and book to someone who's never experienced it is like trying to describe sex to a virgin.”

“Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.”

“A man knows what he likes, so sex with some men is like sex with a mind reader, someone who knows exactly how you like it.”

“This is one of those things that you can never explain to anyone; that's what I want to explain - one of those free-association moments with connections that dissolve when you start to try to put them into words.”

“As a self described idealistic I never consider myself as single. I like to say that I’m in between romances at the moment.”

“I like to be aware of a book as a piece of writing, and aware of its structure as a product of mind, and yet I want to be able to see the represented world through it. I admire artists who succeed in dividing my attention more or less evenly between the world of their books and the art of their books . . . so that a reader may study the work with pleasure as well as the world that it describes.”