Harry Mathews

“She was disgusted with herself...and the disgust permanently cured her of suicide. Her piddling life did not deserve dramatic remedies.”

“My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding.”

“When Niki and I moved to Paris, there was also the challenge of Paris, an extremely daunting city.”

“My Life in CIA is the first time that I've ever written a story in my own name.”

“Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence.”

“Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am.”