All We Can Ever Do Is Lay

Only Keep Still, Wait, And Hear, And The World Will Open.

For Me, University Was Just Awful Because It Was Closing One Door After The Other Of All These Candy Shops Of Professional Possibilities.

I Would Say The Flip Side To My Fascination With Systems Is A Fascination With Components. So Many Of My Books Are Dialogues Between Little And Big.

The Job Of Taste Was To Thin The Insane Torrent Of Human Creativity Down To Manageable Levels. But The Job Of Appetite Was Never To Be Happy With Taste.

I Think That If The Novel's Task Is To Describe Where We Find Ourselves And How We Live Now, The Novelist Must Take A Good, Hard Look At The Most Central Facts Of Contemporary Life - Technology And Science.