I'm very sentimental about lobsters. The last lobster I ate was the only lobster I cooked.

Fiction is always really a labor.

The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly, is always the love that is not returned.

reading is a private act, private even from the person who wrote the book. Once the novel is out there, the author is beside the point. The reader and the book have their own relationship now, and should be left alone to work things out for themselves.

There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.

I know where I'm going. And if I don't know where I'm going, I don't tend to get anywhere.

I was always on time, I did my work to exact specifications, I spoke when spoken to.