There's another part of getting older that's just wonderful. Which is you see the way the stories turn out with peoples' lives.

Images are ... a kind of emotional shorthand.

Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper.

The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.

What makes a Man love Death, Fanny? Is it because he hopes to avert his own by watchin' the Deaths of others? Doth he hope to devour Death by devourin' Executions with his Eyes? I'll ne'er understand it, if I live to be eight hundred Years. The Human Beast is more Beast than Human, 'tis true.

I don't think that I had any idea that 'Fear of Flying' would become a part of the culture. I had no idea that it would go all over the world and be published in Chinese and Serbo-Croat and so on.