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

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

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

There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.

I don’t want your candor. I want your soul in a silver thimble.

There are two categories of writers, it could be said: The author who is just a voice, and the one who is also creating a picture. I belong to the latter, because I have an acute visual sense.

The more things I threw away, the more I found.