But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet.

A life is measured by how it is lived for the sake of heaven.

I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.

... an artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist.

…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and plan properly for the future.

I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity.

Art is a person's private vision expressed in aesthetic forms.