It is when you are angry that you must watch how you talk.

As you grow older you will discover that the most important things that will happen to you will often come as a result of silly things, as you call them --"ordinary things" is a better expression. That is the way the world is.

Each generation thinks it fights new battles. But the battles are the same. Only the people are different.

There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work.

I do not know what evil is when it comes to art. I only know what is good art and what is bad art.

I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art.

To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction.