An autobiography can distort, facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies. It reveals the writer totally.

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.

I've been a free man.

This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.

It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling...