A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow.

I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career.

I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.

All creatures are flawed, but out of the flaw may come the universe.

I knew Anais Nin, who called me after I had been away for a few years. She was seeking help because at that time no one would give her a decent review. She was made fun of.

I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real.

When the dream came into being, I always pursued it.