The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.

Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.

Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad times. We are condemned to work with upstarts, clowns who no doubt got their training in a circus and then turned to journalism as the appropriate place to display their tricks.

It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.

There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.

It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.

If we reject science, we reject the common man.