I feel that whatever virtues the novel may have are very much connected with the limitations you mention. I am not writing a conventional novel, and I think that the quality of the novel I write will derive precisely from the peculiarity or aloneness, if you will, of the experience I write from.

If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time, you'll save yourself from many a sink. Routine is a condition of survival.

Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.

If there is no possibility for change in a character, we have no interest in him.

Sickness is a place, ... and it's always a place where there's no company, where nobody can follow.

The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail. She makes Mickey Spillane look like Dostoevsky.

In my travels I am often asked if college stifles young writers. In my opinion, it doesn't stifle them enough.