We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.

Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self- solitude is the enemy of well- being.

Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.

In general, the churches, visited by me often on weekdays... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola; they promoted thirst without quenching it.

One of the cool, chaste countries - Canada or Sweden.

I have never believed that one should wait until one is inspired because I think the pleasures of not writing are so great that if you ever start indulging them you will never write again.

I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head.