“I think literature reveals more about us than history does.”
“In the end it reveals a lot more about the person doing the imagining than it does about the person being imagined.”
“Many biblical verses are like inkblot tests, revealing more about us than about the text in question.”
“What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book.”
“The thing about That Guy Is a Gigolo,' Radar says, 'I mean, the thing about it as a game, is that in the end it reveals a lot more about the person doing the imagining than it does about the person being imagined.”
“I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of literature so far. Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.”