A Soul is partly given, partly wrought; remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.

There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I'd been treated by at least six of them. And married a seventh.

Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.

Every time I catch myself saying, "Oh no, you shouldn't try that," I think, "Yes, I should."

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.

But we should ask the question: Why should a writer be more than a writer? Why should a writer be a guru? Why are we supposed to be psychiatrists? Isn't it enough to write and tell the truth? It's not like telling the truth is common. Writers are the earthworms of society. We aerate the soil. That's enough.

People in the land of LaLa look like expensive wax fruit. And they work hard to achieve that look.