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.

I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.

The philosophical conservative is someone willing to pay the price of other people s suffering for his principles.

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.

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

I lived in New York for a couple months. It seemed to me at first an incredibly clean place with well-dressed people and washed cars and bright-painted red-and-yellow streetcars and white buildings.

We're always attracted to the edges of what we are, out by the edges where it's a little raw and nervy.