I can talk for a long time only when it's about something boring.

Why don't you like the foods I like?" he asks sometimes. "Why don't you like the foods I make?" I answer.

The moment when a limit is reached, when there is nothing ahead but darkness: something comes in to help that is not real. Another way all this is like madness: a mad person not helped out of his trouble by anything real begins to trust what is not real because it helps him and he needs it because real things continue not to help him.

No one is calling me. I can’t check the answering machine because I have been here all this time. If I go out, someone may call while I’m out. Then I can check the answering machine when I come back in.

If you think of something, do it. Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.

I worked more intensively hour after hour when I was starting out [writing]. More laboriously. I'd say quantity is important as well as quality, and if you're not producing enough, make a schedule and stick to it.

Art is not in some far-off place.