He said, "The word for moonlight is moonlight.

The world isn't going to be destroyed, but you don't feel safe anymore in your plane or train or office or auditorium.

It occurred to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.

The future is always a wholeness, a sameness. We're all tall and happy there,' she said. 'This is why the future fails. It always fails. It can never be the cruel happy place we want to make it.

Isn't death the boundary we need? Doesn't it give a precious texture to life, a sense of definition? You have to ask yourself whether anything you do in this life would have beauty and meaning without the knowledge you carry of a final line, a border or limit.

I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.

I never wanted to change the world. Norman Mailer wanted to, he set himself the task of changing the consciousness of our age. And I think he came pretty close, in the 1960s, to actually managing to do it. But me? No, no, I never wanted anything like that. I'm not Maileresque.