I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.

I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education.

I write out of my intellectual experience.

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.

I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.