She seemed to belong to that pagan, primitive kingdom of birds and forests where everything was infinitely abundant, wild, blooming, and royal in its perpetual decay, death, and rebirth; illicit and clashing with the human world.

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.

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.

When people claim to know who I am, I can no longer act freely.

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

Chance was to work in the garden, where he would care for plants and grasses and trees which grew there peacefully. He would be as one on them: quiet, open hearted in the sunshine and heavy when it rained.

Take whatever you can from others, and when there is nothing left, forget about them.