I prefer to drive myself. I guess I like to be in control..

The few really great-the major novelists ... are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life..

Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous..

I have to be pretty close to what I am..

We Jews, we are the destroyers and will remain the destroyers. Nothing you can do will meet our demands and needs. We will forever destroy because we….

I dont have time to be depressed..

'Sugarland Express' was pretty amazing..

Straight ahead you can't go very far..

I am a romantic, I admit it..

We live in all we seek..

It is increasingly clear that the fate of the universe will come to depend more and more on individuals as the bungling of bureaucracy permeates ever….

I've never been particularly maternal..

I will not be misquoted!.

It is poetry that changes everything..

Presents, I often say, endear absents..

A novelist who ranks with Proust , Kafka , Musil and his friend James Joyce as one of the enduring pillars of Modernism..

Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry..

I wasnt a good rule-breaker when I was younger..

They see me rollin’, they hatin’.

I didn't take a single business class. I learned on the job..

Everybody counts or nobody counts.