All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.
Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.
One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you.
Women will not talk about football unless one of them is in love with a football player, and then suddenly you discover that they know everything that is to be known about it.
If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows.
I work more now because at this time of my life I am not disturbed from my aim by outside pressures such as family, passionate relationships, dealing with 'who am I?' - those complications when one is searching for one's self.