I didn't intend. The word "intend" is the wrong word for what I do. It's just that it's something you do, and you can't not do. If you want to do it, and you don't intend to, you do it anyway. The word "intend" is wrong. The word "pressure" is right. It's like any art form.

I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.

You know the mind is an astonishing, long-living, erotic thing.

I write for the still, small possibility of justice.

I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.

The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.

I liked the education. I liked people learning things all around me and I liked going to people's classes.