I almost always see what I didn't achieve, to a smaller or greater extent.

I wanted everybody to see a sunrise and be knocked out by the miracle of it, the world being created every morning.

It took me a long time to stop thinking that someone else knew what a great painting was. I was never sure.

People have their own ideas how about they should appear.

I've always loved Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. There's this wonderful chapter in which we get a first-person account of the monster's first impressions of the world, being in the woods and taking things in. We're seeing the world as if for the first time. That's just fascinating.

Every book is a unique experience.

We are creatures like everything else in our world.