The World Motivation
The ego being shattered is not what frightens me - that can be useful for writing - but the ego being inflated is sort of like it dying of gout.
“The ego being shattered is not what frightens me - that can be useful for writing - but the ego being inflated is sort of like it dying of gout.”
The ego being shattered is not what frightens me - that can be useful for writing - but the ego being inflated is sort of like it dying of gout.
I'd been coming to New York for weekends since I was 17, and after 9/11, I started making these trips more frequently, just to make contact with the city.
I came to feel that, in addition to Imre Kertesz, Hungary has produced at least three contemporary novelists who deserve the Nobel: Peter Nadas, Peter Esterhazy and Laszlo Krasznahorkai.
I grew up in a university town in eastern North Carolina - what's called Tobacco Road. It was very rural.
I accept the dying process. I would just like to be as healthy as I possibly can at each step and phase along the way.
There are many dying children out there whose last wish is to meet me.
Remaining a pop phenomenon for 20 years without dying or lapsing into self-parody is quite a feat.
Why wouldn't I like to walk into a room full of people who are dying to hear everything I say?
Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
One of the ways I stuck out was I was a very passionate reader. There was probably a cyclical nature to that; the more I felt like an outcast, the more I sought refuge in books, and the more I sought refuge in books, the more it made me not speak the same language as my peers.