The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.

When there's a terrible murder people who are interviewed say, 'This has always been a quiet neighborhood.' That is so dumb and uninformed! The earth is not a quiet neighborhood. There isn't anyplace that's a quiet neighborhood. People are asking themselves how to stay neat in the cyclone.

The truth came slowly like a story told by people interrupting each other.

Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life.

There's a certain amount of tyranny in all of us to some extent, and in some people it's much more developed than in others. It's a different balance which makes us all different.

There was no way to grasp the reality of the present which slid away each second, invisible as air; reality only existed after the fact, in one's vision of the past.

You'll see some bad things, but if you didn't see them, they'd still be happening.