It's often said that writers sometimes need to go around the block a few times to get where they're going.
I learned years ago that love could be temporary and still be love.
Stories have the ability to take us inside all kinds of life.
Penicillin was as liberating for gay sex as the pill had been for straight sex.
There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate.
Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts.