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

The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.

Anyone at any age is able to tell the story of his or her life with authority.

A writer of books has to admit that film is the enemy, and that in my case I have been sleeping with the enemy.

Movies are too literal.

I have committed many sins in my life. This precise sin-the sin against poets-is without absolution.

Time seems to me a drift, a shifting of sand. And my mind is shifting with it. I am wearing away.