The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.

And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have.

As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way my health is now, this is becoming more and more real.

The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.

I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art.

There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital.

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.