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.

I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.

The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.

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.

The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership.

Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self.