It's healthier to reject certain cautions than fall in line.

Naturally a direct comparison of terrorist and novelist is complete nonsense. But there was once a time when the novelist also had some influence on how his contemporaries thought, the way they saw the world, the way they lived.

Certainly I've never tried to imagine what the future will hold. It's a hopeless endeavor to try to do such a thing.

He thinks he's happy but it's just a nerve cell in his brain that's getting too much stimulation or too little stimulation.

A writer decides to follow some ideas and not others for reasons that aren't always clear to him. It's often a matter of intuition.

My attitudes aren't directed toward characters at all. I don't feel sympathetic toward some characters, unsympathetic toward others. I don't love some characters, feel contempt for others. They have attitudes; I don't.

The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever.