No metaphor reinvents the job of the nurture of children except to muddy or mock.

I know I've done good work. I've been very serious about my writing, and I've done the best that I could. But I don't feel that I've done more than I should have. In fact, I've done less than I should have.

I am very interested in people trying to write because I don't have a big academic background at all.

If I miss anything, it's being able to hang out in the city of New York meeting people and talking to them on the corner.

What we owe men is some freedom from their part in a murderous game in which they kick each other to death with one foot, bracing themselves on our various comfortable places with the other.

I've started many novels, and they all ended on page seven.

Write from what you know into what you don't know.