[In my writing] I know that I have made a caricature out of [others' academic] theories [but] I think that caricatures are frequently good portraits.

Every great thinker is someone else's moron.

I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.

There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.

A writer writes for writers, a non-writer writes for his next-door neighbor or for the manager of the local bank branch, and he fears (often mistakenly) that they would not understand or, in any case, would not forgive his boldness.

I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.

I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.