If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.

My father was in the First World War.

I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing.

It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you.

A story is how we construct our experiences.

America can be a very hysterical country intellectually and very puritanical, too. You probably have fun in private, but to the rest of the world you seem to hate fun - to be big on agendas and short on spontaneity. The image you present is one of appalling conformity. The thought police is what you are ruled by.

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.