In fact I've reached the stage where I look at people and say - he or she, they are whole at all because they've chosen to block off at this stage or that. People stay sane by blocking off, by limiting themselves.

Perhaps it is not such a bad marriage after all? There are innumerable marriages where two people, both twisted and wrong in their depths, are well matched, making each other miserable in the way they need, in the way the pattern of their life demands.

You have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.

There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.

Growing up is, after all, only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what every one shares.

I don't know why I still find it so hard to accept that words are faulty and by their very nature innacurate