The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.

My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid and common.

My life is short. I can't listen to banality.

Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.