If he acts, if he doesn't, it's meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all.

I begin with an image of some sort, just as if you saw something out of a window, and then went to the window to see what it was.

I believe in discovering the love that exists and then trying to understand it. Not to invent a love and try to make it exist, but to find what does exist, and then to see what it is.

I don't start with an idea or concept in the sense that I flesh out an idea or concept and set it at the center of something.

I don't read books for pleasure, but in desperation.

I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor.

In searching for a way out of my own troubles, I had found my way into the troubles of others, some long gone, and now I was trying to find my way back out, through their troubles, as if we human beings can ever learn from one another.