Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.

Being called a 'bad citizen' is a compliment to a novelist, at least to my mind. That's exactly what we ought to do.

What terrorists gain, novelists lose.

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

I'm not reclusive at all. Just private.

I don’t want your candor. I want your soul in a silver thimble.

Murray said, ´I don´t trust anybody´s nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past. The more powerful the nostalgia, the closer you come to violence. War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.´