Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.

Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.

If we ban whatever offends any group in our diverse society, we will soon have no art, no culture, no humor, no satire. Satire is by its nature offensive. So is much art and political discourse. The value of these expressions far outweighs their risk.

Love is serene and calm

Sex has the unparalleled power to make us absurd to ourselves. It also has the power to make us understand transcendence.

The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.

I am never so calm as after I have written. And the next morning I will feel the familiar anxiety and I will have to begin the process all over again.