Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Sex just as a drive, as a hormonal drive, is not very interesting.

All people believe their suffering is greater than others.

Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage -- however often we are hurt as a result of it.

Surviving means being born over and over.

You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship-only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.