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

Every major work of art is a transgression, but the artist is not necessarily, by nature, a transgressor.

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

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

Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and can lead to wars.

I thought of myself as a writer for years before I got around to writing anything.