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

A shrewd person would one day start a religion based on coincidence, if he hasn't already, and make a million.

People say great art is immortal. I say there's something mortal in it. It carries a glimpse of death.

When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that's not familiar. But I'm not trying to manipulate reality. This is just what I see and hear.

A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.

We surrounded ourselves with smoke and loud noise. That's the way we chose to live. I'm prepared to defend it.

Facts are lonely things.