The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to tell a story.

Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely.

The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and when we have lightly stepped inside, slams it shut behind us.

The step between ecstatic vision and sinful frenzy is all too brief.

The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.

To survive, you must tell stories.