We live in a material world, not a dramatic one.

I think writing should be about change.

When forging money, I had always salved my conscience by concluding that I was merely extending the lie of commerce.

I had some bad jobs when I was young. Writing is not one of them. If you're fortunate enough to reach my age, to still be writing, you have to be grateful, and I am. I've been lucky. For many years, all I've done is writing, and it's all I've ever wanted to do.

Love is the scent of a sleeping back, death a slight draft of bad breath.

I think it's always wrong of writers to make too much of the pains of their labors, because most people have much worse jobs and suffer such indignities and hardships.

One cannot distinguish between human and non-human acts. One cannot point, one cannot say this man here is a man and that man there is a devil.