I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next.

For most people, there are only two places in the world. Where they live and their TV set. If a thing happens on television, we have every right to find it fascinating, whatever it is.

Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.

Be willing to die for your beliefs, or computer printouts of your beliefs.

Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link.

These are the days after. Everything now is measured by after.

It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know.