How easy it is, treachery. You just slide into it.

Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space.

You shouldn't do that," said Laura. "You could set yourself on fire.

Writing... is an act of faith: I believe it's also an act of hope, the hope that things can get better than they are.

making final judgements about poets, cities or regions on the basis of an anthology is always dangerous: anthologies are mirages created, finally, by their editors.

If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of identifying the author with the narrator, and you can't, obviously, be all of the narrators in all of your books, or else you'd be a very strange person indeed.

Every novel is-at the beginning-the same opening of a door onto a completely unknown space.