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When You Get Older, Then You Feel Death Not At The End Of The Road, But Death All Around You, In Everything. Life Is Saturated With Death. I Feel Death Everywhere.

Never Take Advice From Anyone With No Investment In The Outcome.

I Have A Very, Very Good Relationship With 10 Percent Of The Audience. The Only Purpose Of Art Is Intimacy. That's The Only Point.

In Oratory The Will Must Predominate.

I Think The Novel Is The American Form Because People Read It In Private, And The Only Valuable Things That Happen In America Happen In Private Life, Because Public Life Is A Dead Loss.