Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.

The young-old polarization and the male-female polarization are perhaps the two leading stereotypes that imprison people.

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

I am profoundly uncertain how to write. I know what I love and what I like, because it's a direct passionate response. But when I write, I'm very uncertain whether it's good enough. That is, of course, the writer's agony.

In a lot of writing or intellectual discourse we're starting to use that model: "Oh, this is where it comes from!" I would like to concentrate on work which is more resistant to that procedure, as I think fiction is.

There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.