I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.

I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.

I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.

Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.

I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.

I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.

If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.