No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.

To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.

That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itself.

The evening passes somehow; I watch television with Nancy, or I write. It is difficult, not having a family, and it is difficult to explain. I always go to bed early. And I am always ready for Monday morning, that time that other people dread.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't.

For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.