The Eskimos have four hundred words for snow, and the Jewshave four hundred for schmuck.

Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.

Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness.

All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.

Each day has been chained to the previous one. But the weeks have wings. Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live my life.

It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.

In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that, and so I felt, that night, like the turtle that everything else in the universe was on top of.