The novelist is required to open his eyes on the world around him and look. If what he sees is not highly edifying, he is still required to look. Then he is required to reproduce, with words, what he sees.

I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear.

... the novelist is bound by the reasonable possibilities, not the probabilities, of his culture.

When I was six I had a chicken that walked backward and was in the Pathe News. I was in it too with the chicken. I was just there to assist the chicken but it was the high point in my life. Everything since has been anticlimax.

Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.

You ought to be able to discover something from your stories. If you don't, probably nobody else will.

It is a sign of maturity... to find explanations in charity.