The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

You don't want to repeat yourself for one. You don't want to fall into the clichés for another. And you don't want to be licentious really. You want to be descriptive, if you can be. And you're not setting out to arouse anybody.

When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.

He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.

I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and turn it around again.

I was a biography in constant motion, memory to the marrow of my bones.

Literature got me into this mess and literature is going to have to get me out of it.