It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I've made none the champion.

A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.

The planet is populated by human beings, of which there are only two sexes, and the role of the writer is to explore otherness, other realities. So the idea of a man exploring what it's like to be a woman doesn't strike me as being that wild or crazy an idea.

Christianity is a religion in a rush.

People always seek to compare. They can take the new, but only if it is somehow connected to the familiar. We need that in our lives, the mix of the new and the old. But of course I'm flattered about the comparison with Old man and the sea. Hemingway is a great writer.

Christianity stretches back through the ages, but in essence it exists only at one time: right now.

In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.