“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.”
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I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.
Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.