That ... is how the world moves: Not like an arrow, but a boomerang.

Words are your business, boy. Not just the word. Words are everything. The key to the rock, the answer to the question.

All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority.

Our task, then always, is to challenge the apparent forms of reality-that is, the fixed manner and values of the few, and to struggle with it until it reveals its mad, vari-implicated chaos, its false face, and so on until it surrenders its insight, its truth.

There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.

Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled 'file and forget.'

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.