Swimming always cleans your soul

You could not tell a story like this. A story like this you could only feel.

People do not love those whose eyes show that they are somewhere else

I think that thing about the destruction of the world is there all the time, it's there every day when we look out the window.

I think it's really boring, from the point of view of the novelist, to write about yourself. Tedious. But that's very hard to explain to people who really don't believe in the possibility of invention.

It's true: one of the things that I've always thought about American society is that you never get the sort of natural politicisation of class consciousness that you would get in the United Kingdom or even in Australia.

I had known loneliness before, and emptiness upon the moor, but I had never been a NOTHING, a nothing floating on a nothing, known by nothing, lonelier and colder than the space between the stars. It was more frightening than being dead.