"A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most..." — Saul Bellow

With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence.

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.

We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.

In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.