My attitudes aren't directed toward characters at all. I don't feel sympathetic toward some characters, unsympathetic toward others. I don't love some characters, feel contempt for others. They have attitudes; I don't.

The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever.

Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.

The term itself--my life--is a desperate overstatement.

We need time to lose interest in things.

When he died he would not end. The world would end.

Writing is a concentrated form of thinking.