I come alive when I have assisted in bringing out the printed word on the stage, you know, and I enjoy directing plays. It's a tactile process, theatre, unlike a number of other forms of the creative work.

I can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.

Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.

I think most writers would like a quiet space, complete isolation, in which they control their own time. Spaces of creativity in which there's very little interruption.

Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.

There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind.

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.