It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves.

By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.

Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived. That goes for societies as well as for individuals.

And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone's way but my own.

There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.