Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life.

Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.

Prosperity or egalitarianism -- you have to choose. I favor freedom -- you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.

Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only umbrella." (spoken by character in a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa)

The secret to a masterpiece is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.

Its easy to know what you want to say, but not to say it

Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.

One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.

Literature is a form of permanent insurrection. Its mission is to arouse, to disturb, to alarm, to keep men in a constant state of dissatisfaction with themselves.

Life is an expression of the choices we make.

I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.

I would much rather have a couple of hundred grams of chicken in the afternoon than neck a shake. You're better off just keeping your diet relatively lean and eating simply.

If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.

I really wasn't even aware that Batman and Superman had this kind of grudging friendship.

There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through

If you have a dog or a cat, you know how developed they can be. How sensitive, how aware. They suffer. We all do.

I'm the youngest of seven kids.

A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.

We have always been thinking about different ways to perform electronic music, i.e. music made with machines.