I think writers are excited by stupidity and bad behavior, generally.

Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.

It was the tiredness of time lived, with its days and days. It was the tiredness of gravity- gravity, which wants you down in the center of the earth.

The children of the nuclear age, I think, were weakened in their capacity to love. Hard to love, when you're bracing yourself for impact. Hard to love, when the loved one, and the lover, might at any instant become blood and flames, along with everybody else.

So I am lonely, but not alone, like everybody else.

It's often said of American politics that it's a huge juggernaut and the president can change the direction by two or three degrees in either direction, but not much more. In fact, I think the president's power is limited, much more than the prime minister in England.

I think all writers have a bit of genius in them, and a bit of talent. Genius retreats but talent improves.