I've always felt that the performance of a raag resembles a novel - or at least the kind of novel I'm attempting to write. You know,' he continued, extemporizing as he went along, 'first you take one note and explore it for a while, then another to d...
Quick dinner with ... Ang [Lee] and his wife Jane who's visiting with the children for a while. We talked about her work as a microbiologist and the behaviour of the epithingalingie under the influence of cholesterol. She's fascinated by cholesterol....
Will these millions of children, for generations upon future generations, know that some of their atoms cycled through this woman? [...] Will they feel what she felt in her life, will their memories have flickering strokes of her memories, will they ...
All night the earth and the heavens followed their usual arrangements. Stars passed: an immense tide hung over them. A silent sea raced back with the sun, its wave turn-over small, delicate and comfortless. The most glorious of all stars hung above t...
The available worlds looked pretty grim. They had little to offer him because he had little to offer them. He had been extremely chastened to realize that although he originally came from a world which had cars and computers and ballet and Armagnac, ...
Can you not see, […] that fairy tales in their essence are quite solid and straightforward; but that this everlasting fiction about modern life is in its nature essentially incredible? Folk-lore means that the soul is sane, but that the universe is...
The book is almost always better than the movie. You could have no better case in point than FROM HELL, Alan Moore's best graphic novel to date, brilliantly illustrated by Eddie Campbell. It's hard to describe just how much better the book is. It's l...
One of the worst things about burying a child is the stress of wondering.
Letters orchestrated into a song of words create the symphony of a novel.
we may say that History develops, Art stands still
Work will drive you crazy if you let it.
Suffering is the fire by which love is tested.
Truth may start out timid, but it finishes bold.
Naturalness onstage is just as much an artifice as naturalism in the novel
If I'm going to fail, I want to fail trying.
I guess it’s true: it’s difficult for men to understand women.
There is nothing in man or nature that does not ask questions.
A novel is a tricky thing to map.
... novels contained something inexpressibly delicious.
Novels are just another kind of cross-dressing, aren't they?
One did not drink sherry before the evening, just as one did not read a novel in the morning.
