Horror films do not prepare us for the hours lost in searching after one clear thought.

People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past, we are therefore crippled.

Reaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

It's very bad to write a novel by act of will. I can do a book of nonfiction work that way - just sign the contract and do the book because, provided the topic has some meaning for me, I know I can do it. But a novel is different. A novel is more like falling in love. You don't say, 'I'm going to fall in love next Tuesday, I'm going to begin my novel.' The novel has to come to you. It has to feel just like love.

I would introduce myself if it were not useless. The name I had last night will not be the same as the name I have tonight. For the moment, then, let me say that I am thinking of Sam Slovoda.

Love is simple to understand if you haven't got a mind soft and full of holes. It's a crutch, that's all, and there isn't any one of us that doesn't need a crutch.