Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.
You come to doing what you do by not being able to do something.
I really believe one of the jobs of a writer is to stretch as far as you can into other voices.
I have a basic indolence about me which is essential to writing. ... It's thinking time, it's hanging-out time, it's daydreaming time. You know, it's lie-around-the-bed time, it's sitting-like-a-dope-in-your-chair time. And that seems to me essential to any work.
Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.
People say, "Why do you call your kids up, why do you worry like that?" And I say, "I was raised like that." My grandmother looked at my father with the same eyes when he was sixty and she was eighty-five.