I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self the more you do.

Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.

What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.

Never stop paying attention to things. Never make your mind up finally. Do not hold beliefs.

I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.

I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask you to think independently.

You can understand a lot about yourself by working out which fairytale you use to present your world to yourself in.