What a man does not know is greater than he.

I don't care about age very much.

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

In my definition I am a protest writer, with restraint.

I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.

I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his powerless subjects. That's different from prescribing a way in which a writer should write.

There must be areas in which a particular character does not represent you.