People say, "Well, you went on television, it enlarged your readership." It did not at all, not at all. I might as well tell you, I lost some readership, because the profound audience felt somehow bothered by my too easy manner.

Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment.

I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.

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

Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.

Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library.

I do like to live in other people's homes. I enjoy being a guest. I am an inexpensive guest. When one lives in another's home he can enter into the psychic kingdom of that person.