Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.

Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.

Without rain, there would be no life.

What seems to sell books is good word-of-mouth, not promotion tours. I'm too old to believe that media promotion of a book really matters. What matters is how it will look 100 years from now, not how many copies are sold.

Writing doesn't require drive. It's like saying a chicken has to have drive to lay an egg.

The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started.

My only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me-to give the mundane its beautiful due.