What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish.

Events need their invitation, dissolutions their start.

It seems to me that literature is giving way a little bit to the immediacy of other diversions, other forms of entertainment. What will it be in fifty years? I don't know. Will there be printed books? Probably, but I'm not sure. There's always going to be literature, though. I believe that. I think literature has a way of getting deep into people and being essential. Literature has its own powers.

We were moderate, we will never know what it is to spill out our lives.

As I look back, I see that life is like a game of solitaire and every once in a while there is a move.

Hope but not enthusiasm is the proper state for the writer.

They lay silently. She was staring at something across the room. She was making him feel uncomfortable. 'It wouldn't work. It's the attraction of opposites,' he said. We're not opposites.' I don't mean just you and me. Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to leave.