When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.

Will we ever reach a point when it is no longer necessary to say Them and Us? I believe we must reach that point, or perish.

I used to think there would be a blinding flash of light someday, and then I would be wise and calm and would know how to cope with everything and my kids would rise up and call me blessed. Now I see that whatever I'm like, I'm pretty well stuck with it for life. Hell of a revelation that turned out to be.

Well, you're young. You know a lot you won't know later on.

I've never been able to force a novel. I always had the sense something being given to me. You can't sit around and wait until inspiration strikes, but neither can you force into being something that isn't there.

When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.

As we grow older we should become not less radical but more so.