I'd Much Prefer To Write More Quickly.

I've Never Written Anything That Hasn't Been In My Mind For A Long Time - Seven Or Eight Years.

The Imagination Demands That Life Be Told Slant Because Of Its Need Of Distance.

Nothing Ever Holds Together Unless It Is Mixed With Some Of One's Own Blood

We Absolutely Believed In Heaven And Hell, Purgatory, And Even Limbo. I Mean, They Were Actually Closer To Us Than Australia Or Canada, That They Were Real Places.

I Feel I Grew Up In A Different Century Than I Live In. I Think Most Of Them Are Changes For The Good.