The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.

I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.

It's not that you aren't likable. On the contrary. You are. It's just that one wonders if you haven't made a career out of being so likable.

Can the imagination, any more than the boy, be held prisoner ?" - from the foreword to the 1976 edition of "The Painted Bird

Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard.

I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel.

It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one's hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one.