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

I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them.

There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.

There's a place beyond words where experience first occurs to which I always want to return. I suspect that whenever I articulate my thoughts or translate my impulses into words, I am betraying the real thoughts and impulses which remain hidden.

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.

Life is a state of mind.

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