Swimming Always Cleans Your Soul

One Has To Be Able To Twist And Change And Distort Characters, Play With Them Like Clay, So Everything Fits Together. Real People Don't Permit You To Do That.

So In The First Draft, I'm Inventing People And Place With A Broad Schematic Idea Of What's Going To Happen. In The Process, Of Course, I Discover All Sorts Of Bigger And More Substantial Things.

It's Like Standing On The Edge Of A Cliff. This Is Especially True Of The First Draft. Every Day You're Making Up The Earth You're Going To Stand On.

I Think That Thing About The Destruction Of The World Is There All The Time, It's There Every Day When We Look Out The Window.

The Declared Meaning Of A Spoken Sentence Is Only Its Overcoat, And The Real Meaning Lies Underneath Its Scarves And Buttons.