“A more intriguing question is why and how he writes about what hasn’t happened – how he feeds what’s hypothetical or imagined into what’s inspired and controlled by recollection, and how what’s recollected spawns the overall fantasy.”

Phillip Roth from Paris Review Interviews, IV

“You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship of someone else’s narrative.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb from The Bed of Procrustes