As a rule, one should never place form over content.

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.

I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.

All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.

I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.

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

Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.