Every heart is the other heart. Every soul is the other soul. Every face is the other face. The individual is the one illusion.

If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.

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

I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.

I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night.

we live our fate before we realize exactly what it is.