With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence."

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and a multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.