We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.
Put simply the novel stands between us and the hardening concept of statistical man. There is no other medium in which we can live for so long and so intimately with a character. That is the service a novel renders.
At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
Life's scientific, but we don't know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.