Is there any vanity greater than the vanity of those who believe themselves without it?

One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.

What marks a writer is this: until she - or he, of course - writes down whatever happened, turns it into a story, it hasn't really happened, it hasn't shape, form, reality.

The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.

Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter.

Normal is absolutely my least favorite word.

Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate.