For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

A story is how we construct our experiences.

My mother died happily of a stroke in her seventies.

Artists are the traditional interpreters of dreams and nightmares.

How boring these emotions are that we're caught in and can't get free of, no matter how much we want to.

I'm sure that everybody feels a kind of permanent anguish about what's going on in the world.

You have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.