What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.

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

I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.

The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.