It Takes Close Attention To See What

I've Always Liked Being Relatively Obscure. I Feel That's Where I Belong, That's Where My Work Belongs.

I Am Very Unmusical. I Can't Carry A Tune. I Would Never Be Able To Play An Instrument.

Writers, Some Of Us, May Tend To See Things Before Other People Do, Things That Are Right There But Aren't Noticed In The Way That A Writer Might Notice.

I Used To Think It Was Possible For An Artist To Alter The Inner Life Of The Culture. Now Bomb-makers And Gunmen Have Taken That Territory.

I've Got Death Inside Me. It's Just A Question Of Whether Or Not I Can Outlive It.