If you're going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones... After all, there are better ways to starve to death.

One never quite stops believing, some doubt remains forever".

we had made love without love, half-dressed most of the time and always in the dark so we could imagine ourselves as better than we were.

The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name.

Inspiration gives no warnings.

If men gave birth, they'd be less inconsiderate.

Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses.