I worry about images. Images are what things mean.

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.

Dad is always hiding in his book.

It was evident to him that the world composed and recomposed itself constantly in an endless process of dissatisfaction.

Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.

A novel is a printed circuit through which flows the force of a reader's own life.

One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.