Why are homosexuals addicted to soap opera? Because our lives are a vivid situation.

There were moments when she wasn't talking so much as fading into time, dropping back into some funnelled stretch of recent past.

If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.

Digital clocks took the 'space' out of time.

A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.

Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn.

Not long ago, a novelist could believe he could have an effect on our consciousness of terror. Today, the men who shape and inflence human consciousness are the terrorists.