Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.

A novelist is a person who lives in other people's skins.

The poem is a cry of the unborn heart. Yes, because the poem perfectly embodies the world, there is no world without poem.

The Shadow had no imagination. He neither looked at naked women nor thought of ridding the world of dictators like Hitler or Mussolini.

I have been everywhere because I don't know what I'm looking for.

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.