There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.

Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form

In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody

Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.

I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young

I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans

I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal