A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought with waking thoughts.

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

Coffee is real good when you drink it gives you time to think. It's a lot more than just a drink; it's something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be, like be yourself, and have a second cup.

We know that we can do what men can do, but we still don't know that men can do what women can do. That's absolutely crucial. We can't go on doing two jobs.

There is no pulse so sure of the state of a nation as its characteristic art product which has nothing to do with its material life.

Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.

Too few is as many as too many.