When one controls form, one doesn't do it with a stopwatch or a graph. One does it by sensing, again intuitively.

Well, when I was six years old I decided, not that I was going to be, but with my usual modesty, that I was a writer.

You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are.

I find that in the course of the day when I'm writing, after three or four hours of intense work, I have a splitting headache, and I have to stop. Because the involvement, which is both creative and self-critical, is so intense that I've got to stop doing it.

I am sick of the disparity between things as they are and as they should be. I'm tired.I'm tired of the truth and I'm tired of lying about the truth.

Creativity is magic. Don't examine it too closely.

Art is nowhere near as dangerous as it should be.