..the writer's obsession - the desire to know and communicate, or, rather, to know everything so as to communicate with the greatest degree of precision.

..the writer's obsession - the desire to know and communicate, or, rather, to know everything so as to communicate with the greatest degree of precision.

Fear is the touch of death, death reminding us of its existence.

Man is afraid to attain what he longs for, just as subconsciously he longs for what he is afraid of.

I realised the amazing power of literature and of the human imagination generally: to make the dead live and to stop the living from dying.

Most people can't imagine a life that is any different from the one they are actually living. They can dream about it, they can even go into the streets and demonstrate for it, but they still can't imagine what it would be like.

If you tell anything to a woman ... it's like putting it in the papers.