Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.

I don't know, maybe we're always looking for the right place, maybe it's within reach, but we don't recognize it. Maybe to recognize it, we have to believe in it.

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly.

That is a real attitude - to see everything as being meaningful, even the less important things, to prove something, even the greater problems of life.

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.

Libraries can take the place of God.