Things you did. Things you never did. Things you dreamed. After a long time they run together.

Only sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction.

I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did.

Marrying the right girl is even more imperative today than it was when I was 23 years old because it's so much harder to get on as an imaginative writer like me now. You need to have somebody who believes in what you're doing and who never is skeptical about what you're doing. My wife thought it was a great thing for me to be a writer because in practical terms it freed her to do what she wanted to do, which was work.

Your life doesn't mean what you have or what you get. Its what your'e willing to give up.

I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.

Literature should not be exclusive, it should be inclusive. My general view is that you can't, based on your own experience, project what a book will do for someone else. That's why I don't review books.