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.

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

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

My choice of a life of adventure may well have been a result of the fact that action raised my blood pressure giving me enough energy to live.

You don't die in the United States, you underachieve.

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

All my life I've been hiding.