Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery.