We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a resonance with what I have said. What is important is that you leave with the resonance of what you have felt and what you thought in reaction to that.

I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.

I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile.

To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line. ... That's what the true story-teller should be: a great guide, a clear mind, who can walk a silver line in hell or madness.

I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.