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.

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.

Life is a state of mind.

Take a look at the books other people have in their homes.

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

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.