The independents are the ones who tend to commit suicide. I'm not against this way of being in the world. Individuals have brought us many treasures. You can't just say that's a bad way of being in the world - it's not. But it's not everyone's way of being in the world.

... there is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more fun.

Anything is possible. A man is what he makes up his mind to be.

There's nothing about interdependence that would keep somebody from making art.

Whatever I do in life, I'm almost always aware that there's another way to do it.

I hate to generalize because there are always so many exceptions to any rule.

I think that there is a bias in the current literary climate, which is not only very Western but very male.