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Now I believe they will leave me alone. Obviously Rodman came up hoping to find evidence of my incompetence—though how an incompetent could have got this place renovated, moved his library up, and got himself transported to it without arousing the suspicion of his watchful children, ought to be a hard one for Rodman to answer. I take some pride in the way I managed all that. And he went away this afternoon without a scrap of what he would call data.
1972 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
"My grandparents had to live their way out of one world and into another, or into several others, making new out of old the way corals live their reef upward. I am on my grandparent’s side. I believe in Time, as they did, and in the life chronological rather than in the life existential . We live in time and through it, we build our huts in its ruins, or used to, and we cannot afford all these abandonings."