I'm more cautious about what I write.

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.

When comedy fails, seriousness begins to leak back in.

Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year's prayer, not a resolution. I'm praying for courage.

The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is very difficult to write out of because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood.