Every writer has certain subjects that they write about again and again, and . . . most people's books are just variations on certain themes.

I'm like a book you have to read. A book can't read itself to you. It doesn't even know what it's about. I don't know what I'm about.

Someone has to ask you a question," George continues meaningly, "before you can answer it. But it's so seldom you find anyone who'll ask the right questions. Most people aren't that much interested.

His life has been lived, so far, within narrow limits and he is quite naïve about most kinds of experience; he fears it and yet is wildly eager for it. To reassure himself, he converts it into epic myth as fast as it happens. He is forever play-acting.

I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.

I am a camera, with its shutter open. Someday, all of this will be developed, printed, fixed.

One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself.