I've always thought things were absurd. It would take a lot more effort for me to see things as reasonable.

I'm being provided with some emotional ballast by giving me an intimate portrait of one character in particular in contrast to the collective. I'm fortunate that I had very sympathetic readers, but ordinarily - if a book makes you laugh too much, it shifts from "literature" to "entertainment."

I have never stopped considering not becoming a writer.

I've always thought things were absurd. It would take a lot more effort for me to see things as reasonable.

Humor is a very big part of life, and if you exclude humor from your book, you're not capturing a very important part of human experience.

We suffered failures of imagination just like everyone else, our daring was wanting, and our daily contentment too nearly adequate for us to give it up.

I believe people think as a group more often than we might realize or care to admit. We like to believe that we act as individuals and nothing more, but time and again - in corporations and business, in politics and religion, in fashion and culture, and in friendships and social circles - we think and do as one.