I don't think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.

Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.

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.

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.

As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.

I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.