Every one of my books had killed me a little more.

Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic.

When a novel comes, it's a grace. Something in the cosmos has forgiven you long enough so that you can start.

Crude thoughts and fierce forces are my state. I do not know who I am. Nor what I was. I cannot hear a sound. Pain is near that will be like no pain felt before.

The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.

Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words.

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.