The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.

It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you.

Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous.

For there is never any way to go but in.

I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'

I find myself increasingly shocked at the unthinking and automatic rubbishing of men which is now so part of our culture that it is hardly even noticed.

I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.