I have thought for a long time that the way my clothes hang on me is more important than me inside them.

There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in evrything, everywhere we look.

I went to the top of Vesuvius and looked in.

I wouldn't call my work Modernist. I would rust if I try to think about labels. I'd feel like the Tin Man in 'The Wizard of Oz.

I was at the tail end of the family. The next brother along was already seven years older than me. I remember growing up by myself, playing games by myself.

Nothing is harmful to literature except censorship, and that almost never stops literature going where it wants to go either, because literature has a way of surpassing everything that blocks it and growing stronger for the exercise.

A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book.