I didn't become a writer to write about me.

We must conclude that it is not only a particular political ideology that has failed, but the idea that men and women could ever define themselves in terms that exclude their spiritual needs.

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.

I have always thought, the secret purpose of the book tour is to make the writer hate the book he's written. And, as a result, drive him to write another book.

perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.

The world is about the way in which our dreams intersect with our real life. Endlessly, the world of the imagination changes the world.