It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.

I think all writers are a bit crazy; Damaged souls, incapable of doing anything else.

It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.

I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don't know what you're doing.

Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure. It can't be done.

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

Wounds are an essential part of life, and until you are wounded in some way, you cannot become a man.