A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.

To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity.

If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.

There exists among the intolerable degraded, the perverse and powerful desire to force into the arena of the actual those fantastic crimes of which they have been accused, achieving their vengeance and their own destruction through making the nightmare real.

how can one respect, let alone adopt, the values of a people who do not, on any level whatever, live the way they say they do, or the way they say they should?

A real writer is always shifting and changing and searching.