I did not sleep. I never do when I am over-happy, over-unhappy, or in bed with a strange man.

it is not good to repudiate the dead because then they do not leave you alone, they are like dogs that bark intermittently at night.

I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness.

Wherever there were horses or ponies the mushrooms always sprang up.

History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.

Money talks, but tell me why all it says is just Goodbye.

Writers, however mature and wise and eminent, are children at heart.