Occupation: Author Birth: February 3, 1947
Our lives don't really belong to us, you see -- they belong to the world, and in spite of our efforts to make sense of it, the world is a place beyon….
Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that s….
No one can cross the boundary into another -- for the simple reason that no one can gain access to himself.
I have difficulty orienting myself in space, and I'm probably one of the few people who gets lost in Manhattan..
We exist for ourselves, perhaps, and at times we even have a glimmer of who we are, but in the end we can never be sure, and as our lives go on, we b….
While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels, I liked them. And there was a period when I read many of them. I ….
A canteen I remember vividly, and maybe one other thing, I can't remember. And I knew then that he had bought them in an army surplus store that day ….
Each man, therefore, is the entire world, bearing within his genes a memory of all mankind. Or as Leibniz put it: ‘Every living substance is a perpet….
Even when I'm just sitting at my desk, I have to get up every twenty minutes or so and walk around, walk around, walk around, and then I can go back ….
I feel that the act of writing, in and of itself, is a tool towards probing that which you wouldn't without that pen in your hand. It's a strange, al….
How is it possible for someone who believes that the world was created in six days to have a rational conversation with me, who doesnt believe that, ….
Artists are the people for whom the world is not enough..
We're outsiders, and so when we walk through the city, we're there and not there at the same time, participating and observing simultaneously..
For a man who finds life tolerable only by staying on the surface of himself, it is natural to be satisfied with offering no more than his surface to….
I can never say 'why' about anything I do. I suppose I can say 'how' and 'when' and 'what.' But 'why' is impenetrable to me..
Escaping into a film is not like escaping into a book. Books force you to give something back to them, to exercise your intelligence and imagination,….
I don't like pictures in books. I feel that the pictures diminish the words, and the words diminish the pictures, and it doesn't work..
A book, at the same time, also has to do with what I call a buzz in the head. It's a certain kind of music that I start hearing. It's the music of th….
I've been very lucky in this second marriage. It's just luck. It's absolute luck. And I can only marvel at it. So many other things could have happen….
The things we remember are often things that have great emotional importance, and so they have a lasting effect..
There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round..