What do you mean, blindly? That baby is a very sentient creature… That baby sees the world with a completeness that you and I will never know again. His doors of perception have not yet been closed. He still experiences the moment he lives in.

It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what you are doing - it's that it feeds the imagination.

If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.

Sometimes we don't even realize what we really care about, because we get so distracted by the symbols.

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

If you label it this, then it can't be that.

I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it.