Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator.

Beware of the man who denounces psychiatrists; / he is afraid.

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

It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper.

If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don't know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

I don't think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.

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