I'd rather come back with a few transcendent memories than an album of snapshots.

At certain crucial moments - an emergency or an opportunity - one must act first and think later.

The most important things in our intimate lives can't be discussed with strangers, except in books.

Dreadful is a poignant biography of a forgotten man who drank himself to death. It's a brilliant evocation of a self-hating gay novelist in the 1940s whom Gore Vidal once considered a rival.

The imagination is not the consolation people pretend. It can even be regarded as the admission of some sort of failure.

In writing one draws in the rest, the forgotten parts.

Ive always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.