When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
The soul never dies and the body is never really alive.
Men want all women to lie down as whores and get up as virgins.
I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.
The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper.