In our world we sleep and eat the image and pray to it and wear it too.

You live in a tower that soars to heaven and goes unpunished by God.

You need to know things the others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.

Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?' What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing

Writing is a concentrated form of thinking...a young writer sees that with words he can place himself more clearly into the world. Words on a page, that's all it takes to help him separate himself from the forces around him, streets and people and pressures and feelings. He learns to think about these things, to ride his own sentences into new perceptions.

I do think that in the near future, if it hasn't happened already, people will be able to use technology to design their own novels, perhaps with individuals themselves as the main character. In other words, everything is being individualized and narrowed.

There are times when you want to stop working at faith and just be washed in a blowing wind that tells you everything.