The music I like best is kind of frozen in my mind from the Sixties and Seventies. I still listen to the same jazz music I listened to when I was eighteen years old, and like and admire it just as much.

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

Not long ago, a novelist could believe he could have an effect on our consciousness of terror. Today, the men who shape and inflence human consciousness are the terrorists.

Digital clocks took the 'space' out of time.

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

Her death would leave me scattered, talking to chairs and pillows. Don't let us die, I want to cry out to that fifth-century sky ablaze with mystery and spiral light. Let us both live forever, in sickness and health, feebleminded, doddering, toothless, liver-spotted, dim-sighted, hallucinating. Who decides these things? What is out there? Who are you?

Why are homosexuals addicted to soap opera? Because our lives are a vivid situation.