Who said “I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.”?

“A burnt child dreads the fire.”

“Deep experience is never peaceful.”

“Experience teaches only the teachable.”

“The more experiments you make the better.”

“Fooled once shame on you, fooled twice shame on me.”

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”

“There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.”

“Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.”

“It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”

“The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.”

“In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.”