How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?

After fifty most of the bullshit is gone.

I've been so thoroughly incorporated into the California culture that I practice meditation and go to a therapist, even though I always set a trap: during my meditation I invent stories to keep from being bored, and in therapy I invent stories to keep from boring the psychologist.

I'm not above anybody. I'm, I'm not better than anybody. I am made of the same material that everybody else is and if somebody can be a saint, so can I and if somebody can be a torturer, so can I.

The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.

If I write something, I fear it will happen, and if I love too much, I fear I will lose that person; nevertheless, I cannot stop writing or loving.

Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.