Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need.
I think you have an obligation to share what you know as a writer.
He didn't like very many people any more, or very many things either. He preferred not to be this way, but there it was, he was like that. His cynicism, a veteran's cynicism, was a thing that disturbed him all the time.
A literary achievement of the highest order.
What sustains me is to be with my family and to write.
I'm interested in themes that endure from generation to generation.