"Each neighborhood of the city appeared to be made of a different substance, each seemed to have a different air pressure, a different psychic weight: the bright lights and shuttered shops, the housing..."
- Teju Cole
"There was some kind of scuffle two hundred yards down the street, again strangely noiseless, and a huddled knot of men opened up to reveal two brawlers being separated and pulled away from their fight..."
"I am a novelist, and my goal in writing a novel is to leave the reader not knowing what to think. A good novel shouldn't have a point."
"I adore imaginary monsters, but I am terrified of real ones."