It seems that what I really want is a drug that will increase my consciousness of others, not myself.

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.

The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.

Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort.

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

The popular culture says . . . Do what you do, your life is predestined, like the installment plan on your house. There's not much you can do about it. Make your payments, live it, get sick, die, don't make any trouble. It is the Master Charge of destiny. Try to get your high credit rating.