What is your identity, and how do you know who you are if you don't have language? T. C. Boyle identitylanguage Change image and share on social
The compulsively readable events of my life occurred mainly in infancy, and it's been pretty humdrum ever since. T. C. Boyle compulsivelyeventhumdrum Change image and share on social
I describe myself as an environmentalist not because I'm marching in the street with placards but because I like to be in the woods by myself. T. C. Boyle describeenvironmentalistmarch Change image and share on social
I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it - in a world in which everything else is out of control. T. C. Boyle artcontrolcreate share on social
Science has killed religion. There's no hope for the future with seven billion of us on the planet, and the only thing you can do is to laugh in the face of it all. T. C. Boyle billionfacefuture Change image and share on social
I think the best endings bring you back in rather than close things off with absolute finality. I'm not saying they necessarily have to be ambiguous, but we don't always need to know what happens when everyone wakes up tomorrow morning. T. C. Boyle absoluteambiguousback share on social
I'm just kind of fascinated by how we can deny that we are animals and what our impact on the other animals is like, and how quixotic we can be in trying to assess what we've done in trying to correct it. T. C. Boyle animalassescorrect share on social
This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth. T. C. Boyle affectartfiction Change image and share on social
Of course all novelists are egomaniacs and want to draw everyone to their fold just like any other preacher. The snake-oil peddler, the false prophet, all of this is fascinating to me. But I certainly hope that I'm more humane than that. T. C. Boyle drawegomaniacfalse share on social
