I am filled suddenly with hope. I don't think I will ever die. We are looking for ghosts, but, I think, a good story will do.

Writers do not write about a place because they belong there, but because they want to.

How do you tell somebody how to find what they're looking for when ten years ago you came from the same place, and have yet to find it yourself?

For the first time in the history of the world every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals from the moment of conception until death.

Beware of creating tedium!

Alow immortality to work through you. Be but a mere instrument. And that instrument should be so absorbed in the perfect perfection of existence, that it knows not even that it is absorbed.

Socialism is simply a re-assertion of that tribal ethics whose gradual weakening had made an approach to the Great Society possible.

I dream of writing a book like LOVERS some day. It is so spare but so rich. It is history made intimate, and a masterpiece of compression.

I don't set out to make a really hot shoe, I set out to make a product that is true to where I am.

No great saint lived without errors.

The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist

All space must be attached to a value, to a public dimension. There is no private space. The only private space that you can imagine is the human mind.

What we eat is a matter of life and death.