The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation.

As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way my health is now, this is becoming more and more real.

And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have.

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

I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call it Eternity

I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day.

You don't die in the United States, you underachieve.