When you're writing you're trying to find out something which you don't know.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.

Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.

Drive to the heart of every answer and expose the question the answer hides.

At four o'clock in the morning, when everyone is drunk enough, then extraordinary things can happen.