I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.

What matters in the end in literature, what is always there, is the truly good. And- though played out forms can throw up miraculous sports like The Importance of Being Earnest or Decline and Fall- what is good is always what is new, in both form and content. What is good forgets whatever models it might have had, and is unexpected; we have to catch it on the wing.

The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.

Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can't do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to sit and watch and wait.

If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.

I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.

Small things start us in new ways of thinking