I really do believe in the New Jerusalem. I really do believe that we can all become better than we are. I know we can. But the price is enormous and people are not yet willing to pay it.

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

A real writer is always shifting and changing and searching.

It is a terrible, an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim, one sees oneself.