Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Writers themselves don't analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.

Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one's reactions, answerable to no one's views.

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.

Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.

I believe - I know (there are not many things I should care to dogmatize about, on the subject of writing) that writers need solitude, and seek alienation of a kind every day of their working lives. (And remember, they are not even aware when and when not they are working.) ... The tension between standing apart and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.

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.