Now they are lovers. The first, wild courses are ended. They have founded their domain. A satanic happiness follows.

I'd given up everything to be a writer, and if I didn't then go on to do that - to write - then I didn't know what would happen to me.

Not necessarily narrow so much as impatient, intense.

It's tremendous: this world, this life. Take it while you have it.

I don't hold myself dictated to by what everyone is saying, by the tabloids or popular opinion. I don't like bourgeois values. I say you find your own way to live.

On the Internet, everyone is writing. There is a great flowering of writing.

In general, American life is more easy-going. And civic pride, national pride in a cultural sense, is great in America. I think what they esteem in America is character and energy, and being different and superior to other peoples. Of course, every nation feels itself to be superior, but in America it's a jaunty feeling, and in some cases a rather ominous one among the super-patriots.