I've known several cases of writers who decide to write about something and they research the hell out of it and when they're ready to write, they can't move because they are so burdened. I start writing. Whatever I need somehow comes to hand.

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

The difference between Socrates and Jesus is that no one had ever been put to death in Socrates' name. And that is because Socrates' ideas were never made law. Law, in whatever name, protects privilege.

I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only narrative.

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

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

We dress them [children] in the presumptions of the world. They are the bright small face of hope. They are the last belief we have, the belief in making them believe.