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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

When people come up to me and say 'I hate you' or 'I love to hate you,' it's not the usual response that I thought I would've gotten halfway into my career. And then they say, 'I love your work.'

You are often asked to explain your work, as if the reader isn't able to work it out. And people always try and label you by your work.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

People feel like they know me from the work I have done, but it's not me.

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

I rarely find that things put in quotes, attributed to me, are things that I said -certainly in the context in which they are presented.

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

I don't care if people know who I am or if I make a ton of money, I just love my work so much.

I think it's easy for people to say, 'Because you do this, you must be this kind of person, vain or uptight or mean to people.' People have a sense of who you may be because of the job you do. That's unfair judgment.