If you take two steps towards God,' he used to tell me, 'God runs to you!
It's amazing how willpower can build walls.
A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.
We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.
He's a shy man. Life has taught him not to show off what is most precious to him.
Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate it, that’s their response to it. Others respond by liking it. Either way, that is their interaction with the book, which is no longer mine.