I feel akin to [William] Shakespeare in the sense that, as I see it, he lived to dramatize the unfailingly exciting, unfathomably strange interplay among human beings that constitutes "scenes" in his plays, and constitutes "story" in prose fiction.

To the west, the Pacific Ocean, which revulses me, for its vastness cannot be fitted into any box.

Art is about freedom of expression, and should not be molded to fit any propaganda or lofty ideal.

The only people who claim that money is not important are people who have enough money so that they are relieved of the ugly burden of thinking about it.

I feel a terrible loss when I (eventually must) complete a work of fiction.

Though I revise constantly as I write, I will usually revise much of the work again after I've reached the ending.

An actress wants to be seen. An actress wants to be loved. By multitudes of people, not just one lone man.