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Most Of Us Live In A Condition Of Secrecy: Secret Desires, Secret Appetites, Secret Hatreds And Relationship With The Institutions Which Is Extremely Intense And Uncomfortable. These Are, To Me, A Part Of The Ordinary Human Condition. So I Don't Think I'm Writing About Abnormal Things. ... Artists, In My Experience, Have Very Little Center. They Fake. They Are Not The Real Thing. They Are Spies. I Am No Exception.

Love Means Having Something To Betray.

More Particularly, Having A Largely German-oriented Education Has Made Me Very Responsive To 19th-century German Literature.

People Who've Had Very Unhappy Childhoods Are Pretty Good At Inventing Themselves. If Nobody Invents You For Yourself, Nothing Is Left But To Invent Yourself For Others.

Having Your Book Turned Into A Movie Is Like Seeing Your Oxen Turned Into Bouillon Cubes.