Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time.

I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same direction everybody else's was. And that life was going to be very, very complicated. And that I could either be provocative and declamatory, or shy, retiring and scared.

I don't believe that there is any true friendship without a bond of honor, and the honor in friendship is the respect you give the other that she also gives you.

Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.

I did things I did not understand for reasons I could not begin to explain just to be in motion, to be trying to do something, change something in a world I wanted desperately to make over but could not imagine for myself.

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.