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

The question of dying becomes a wise reminder. It cures us of our innocence of the future.

People will not die. Isn't this the creed of the new culture? People will be absorbed in streams of information. I know nothing about this. Computers will die. They're dying in their present form. They're just about dead as distinct units.

Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.

People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night. I carry this thought, the child's mystery and terror of this thought, I feel this immensity in my soul every second of my life.

I think if you maintain a force in the world that comes into people's sleep, you are exercising a meaningful power.

Writers, some of us, may tend to see things before other people do, things that are right there but aren't noticed in the way that a writer might notice.