I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unloveable in it, for it is all part of me.

Having tried to give pattern to the chaos which lives within the pattern of your certainties, I must come out, I must emerge.

In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live.

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

Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.

I am nobody but myself.

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