We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.

It's an act of faith to be a writer in a postliterate world.

Golf is an expensive way to make yourself miserable.

A narcissism shared by two.

Novels, like human beings, usually have their beginnings in the dark.

I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering is unnecessary. It doesn't make you a better artist; it only makes you a hungry one. However, to me the acquisition of the craft of writing was worth any amount of suffering.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.