I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired.

Ours was not a political household, when I was growing up.

Autonomy is the whole thing; it's what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people.

Life is not a series of pathetic, meaningles actions. Some of them are so far from pathetic, so far from meaningless as to be beyond reason, maybe beyond forgiveness.

. . . crazy world or maybe it's just the view we have of it, looking through a crack in the door, never being able to see the whole room, the whole picture.

The 'creator' and the 'editor' - two halves of the writer whole - should sleep in separate rooms.

Sometimes you are being interviewed by someone and you think, if I knew this person they'd be my best friend. Other times you're being interviewed by a complete jerk.