Writing! The activity for which the only adequate bribe is the possibility of suicide, one day.

She wasn't in love but she would love him, if that would save her.

Writers are notoriously unable to know about themselves. Faulkner thought 'The Fable' was his best novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald liked 'Tender Is the Night,' an experimental novel.

The heavenly light you admire is fossil-light, it's the unfathomably distant past you gaze into, stars long extinct

The - the sort of thing that I want to do is to strike a resonant chord of universality in other people, which is best done by fiction.

Art does the same things dreams do. We have a hunger for dreams and art fulfills that hunger. So much of real life is a disappointment. That's why we have art.

Only in love is there trust - even the possibility of trust.