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

That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease.

The excitement of theatre is palpable but the frustrations, and the complete absence of a definitive evening - the play as text means practically nothing in a way - , there's no particular performance that is definitive in the way a novel is a solid object you hold in your hands and here it is. You can't say that about a play. If the novel gives us a sense of throbbing consciousness, theater is pure soul, beautiful and elusive.

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

Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else.

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

When he died he would not end. The world would end.