Artists are the traditional interpreters of dreams and nightmares.

I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'

An interim report - that is what an autobiography is.

I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

Bad luck for both of us, we are both boulder-pushers.

I am so happy to be communicating with people on this newest of new wavelengths which to some older people must seem like a kind of magic.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.