All Poets Write Bad Poetry.

Books Are Menaced By Books. Any Excess Of Information Produces Silence.

Better Reality Than A Dream: If Something Is Real, Then It's Real And You're Not To Blame.

If Photography Is To Be Likened To Perception, This Is Not Because The Former Is A Natural Process But Because The Latter Is Also Coded.

Since I Became A Novelist I Have Discovered That I Am Biased. Either I Think A New Novel Is Worse Than Mine And I Don’t Like It, Or I Suspect It Is Better Than My Novels And I Don’t Like It.

When Men Stop Believing In God, It Isn't That They Then Believe In Nothing: They Believe In Everything.