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.

Funny way to spend your life, though, studying another chap's versifying.

I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite.

Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.

Where would we be without inhibitions? Theyre quite useful things when you look at some of the things humans do if they lose them.

What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.

I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.