You Can't Find Peace By Avoiding Life.

One Always Has A Better Book In One's Mind Than One Can Manage To Get Onto Paper.

A Certain Slightly Cruel Disregard For The Feelings Of Living People Is Simply Part Of The Package. I Think A Writer, If Hes Any Good, Is Not An Entirely Benign Entity In The World.

. . . He Felt Himself Entering A Moment So Real He Could Only Run Toward It, Shouting.

I Suspect Any Serious Reader Has A First Great Book, Just The Way Anybody Has A First Kiss.

You Have Started The Book With This Bubble Over Your Head That Contains A Cathedral Full Of Fire - That Contains A Novel So Vast And Great And Penetrating And Bright And Dark That It Will Put All Other Novels Ever Written To Shame. And Then, As You Get Towards The End, You Begin To Realise, No, It's Just This Book.