I could EAT YOUR HEART & asshole you'd never know it.

People have libraries at home, they have bookshelves, they have CDs. And they sort of try, people try to bring great artists into their lives, into their physical houses and sort of live with portions of them. But they're not really deeply engaging with them.

At all crucial moments in our lives we want to speak without knowing what to say.

Honorary degrees and lifetime achievement awards are very encouraging. I know that it might sound strange that a writer who has published many books still needs encouragement, but this is true.

Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.

I've never given up. I've always kept going. I don't feel that I could afford to give up. That would be the beginning of the end.

A writer can't subtract or excise any of his/her past because doing so would erase the work produced during that time.