Each person was himself one alone. One oneness, a unit in a society, but always afraid, always alone. If I should scream, if I should call for help, would anyone hear would it even matter?

Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed.

The great thing about my life is that everything I've done is a result of what I was when I was 12 or 13.

It was a pleasure to burn.

I have four daughters and eight grandchildren. My soul lives on in them. That's immortality. That's the only immortality I care about.

Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them.

We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?