Wealth is a monster. It takes a month to learn to control it financially. And many years to learn to control it psychologically.

When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies

One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and that’s the lot. There’s no mercy in things. There’s not even a Great Beyond. There’s nothing.

Another reason I think the novel will survive is that the reader has to work in a novel. In a film, you are presented with someone else's imagination exactly bodied out. The marvelous thing about a novel is that every reader will imagine even the very simplest sentence slightly differently.

I am infinitely strange to myself.