If The Sleep Of Reason Produces Monsters,

My Mother Had Been Educated At A Convent, And She Had Been Converted To Communism By My Father During Stalin's Most Rampant Period, At The Beginning Of The 1930s. So She Had Two Gods, God In Heaven And God On Earth.

When I Write, I Enjoy Myself So Much That What Is Being Written Really Needs No Reader

Many Of My Books Have Begun With The Title, Because Naming A Work Already In Progress Makes No Sense To Me.

American Literature Had Always Considered Writing A Very Serious Matter

I Don't Much Believe In The Idea Of Characters. I Write With Words, That Is All. Whether Those Words Are Put In The Mouth Of This Or That Character Does Not Matter To Me