The pen will never be able to move fast enough to write down every word discovered in the space of memory. Some things have been lost forever, other things will perhaps be remembered again, and still other things have been lost and found and lost again. There is no way to be sure of any this.

The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.

It became a habit of mine never to leave the house without a pencil in my pocket.

Nothing lasts, you see, not even the thoughts inside you. And you musn't waste your time looking for them. Once a thing is gone, that is the end of it.

I know the pleasure you get from making your films. The intense involvement in every aspect: the acting, the camera, the colors, the costumes, even the hair and makeup. Editing is thrilling. Everything to do with films is absorbing - everything but the money part, the business. But I'm deeply glad I've had that experience.

We have missed him in the sunshine, in the storm, in the twilight, ever since.

Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick with it.