Whenever I get into something, I shut out everything else.

My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely life… Not that I knew what I wanted in life - I didn’t. I loved reading novels to distraction, but didn’t write well enough to be a novelist; being an editor or a critic was out, too, since my tastes ran to the extremes. Novels should be for pure personal enjoyment, I decided, not part of your work or study. That’s why I didn’t study literature

I collect records. And cats. I don't have any cats right now. But if I'm taking a walk and I see a cat, I'm happy.

A story is not something of this world. A real story requires a kind of magical baptism to link the world on this side with the world on the other side.

A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose how you die.

I think most people live in fiction...That's how you keep your fragile body intact.

No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant.