The ideal reader's the same, and I suppose this person has never had a face or a gender or an age. It's just some kind of unknown other who will be sympathetic and read each word carefully and understand what I'm writing about. I suppose every writer feels this.

Everyone reads a different book. That's what's interesting. Everyone sees a different film, as well. We bring our past lives to whatever work of art we're experiencing at that moment, and that's what makes it interesting. It's not mathematics. There are different answers for different people.

The moon people do not eat by swallowing food but by smelling it. Their money is poetry - actual poems, written out on pieces of paper whose value is determined by the worth of the poem itself.

You find the book in the process of doing it. That's the adventure of the job.

Let me tell you, there's no better medicine than a friendly card game for sloughing off the cares of a workaday world.

I walk around the world like a ghost, and sometimes I question whether I even exist. Whether I've ever existed at all.

You're too good for this world, and because of that the world will eventually crush you.