We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.

It was all those biographies in me yelling, 'We want out. We want to tell you what we've done to you.'

There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.

There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.

Writers who can't invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn't paint people, so he painted chairs.

A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.

(Clothes) cannot change a man's nature. He's either kind or he isn't, with or without clothes.