The lessons I learned that were most important were the ones that hurt my feelings.
I try very hard to be fair, and I look for ironies. In a way, I live on ironies as a novelist.
It's easy to create a country, all you have to do is to think of a name for it
At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said, between words and silence. It also brought back a lot of latent religious feelings in me that I had turned my back on.
Everybody's after a new morning. What do we have to run up and salute tomorrow?
One does not consider style, because style is.