I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.

Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.

There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk to them, and in France I have a lot of readers in the sciences. I can't tell you why.

The world that used to nurse us now keeps shouting inane instructions. That's why I ran to the woods.

I can write anywhere.

What cannot be said, will get wept.

I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that.