If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.

writers do not choose their subjects; their subjects choose them.

You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare

We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.

I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.

Why does life need evidence of life?

I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.