I understand there are some men who are only half here. Let's not say men. Let's say people. People who are more or less obscure at times.

If an idea seems to find its way towards a stage setting, that's the direction I take. I don't know if I'm trying to achieve anything other than to follow an idea on to the page.

I was never either pro-culture or counter-culture. I was in a kind of middle state.

It frequently happens that I begin a novel with just a visual image of something, a vague sense of people in three dimensional space.

The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.

Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live.

We need time to lose interest in things.