Writing is making sense of life.

I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.

I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.

I never talk about what I'm writing about currently, never. It's private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform.

The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.

In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.

Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that...you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.