Once you get older, people stop listening to what you say. It's very agreeable once you get used to it.

Once you get older, people stop listening to what you say. It's very agreeable once you get used to it.

The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.

I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're doing what they're doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them.

Dorothy was in that state human beings passed through at the beginning of a love affair, in which they desire to say anything and everything to the beloved, to the alter ego, before they have learned what the real Other can and can't understand, can and can't accept.

Creative Writing was not a form of psychotherapy, in ways both sublime and ridiculuous, it clearly was, precisely that.

Lists are a form of power.