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

I am curious about grownups, not children.

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

Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort.

A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.

I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me.

Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time.