I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of people who don't exist.

My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so: I am a storyteller.

He traveled in order to come home.

The same applies to any artist; we are the tools and instruments of our talent. We are outsiders; we have no place in society because society is what we’re watching, and dealing with.

I believe in not quite knowing. A writer needs to be doubtful, questioning. I write out of curiosity and bewilderment.

I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.

People run away to be alone,' he said. Some people had to be alone.