That's how a thing starts out real then ends up just an idea.

For madness must be punished in a world in which mere sanity is prized. The revenge of the ordinary upon the gifted.

Look at the world and see what's there. It's very beautiful. It's a very exciting but in some ways treacherous world, and all this goes into the writing.

Perhaps the inevitable tragedy of our complex civilization is that we must be specialists in our fields - and our fields have become increasingly difficult, so that communication is nearly impossible.

My life is a very interior and solitary life. I tend not to care that much about external things.

Novels begin, not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming - In thinking, not writing.

Writers and artists never pay attention to advice given by their elders, quite rightly. The only worthwhile advice is the most general: Keep trying, don't give up, don't be discouraged, don't pay attention to detractors. Everyone knows this.