The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke..

I always have a sense of trembling, but so does a compass, after all..

She seemed to belong to that pagan, primitive kingdom of birds and forests where everything was infinitely abundant, wild, blooming, and royal in its….

Take a look at the books other people have in their homes..

You don't die in the United States, you underachieve..

Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky..

Life is a state of mind..

When people claim to know who I am, I can no longer act freely..

I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them..

I am curious about grownups, not children..

Like nature, our economic system remains, in the long run, stable and rational...We welcome the inevitable seasons of our economy! How foolish of us..

Take whatever you can from others, and when there is nothing left, forget about them..

I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day..

Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library..

I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening..

There's a place beyond words where experience first occurs to which I always want to return. I suspect that whenever I articulate my thoughts or tran….

Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time..

And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss….

The principle of art is to pause, not bypass..

Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership..

If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company of one..