Good intentions are wicked! As far as I can see, all they lead to are lies and delusions.

Mom was a smoker. My grandfather was a smoker. My aunts were smokers. My uncles were smokers. I don't know any smokers now, not even my mom.

There weren't too many books by women that were taught in school, so I read those on my own, and the books I read were as accessible as the ones we were reading in school.

The body, the mind, and the spirit don't form a pyramid, they form a circle. Each of them runs into the other two. The body isn't below the mind and the spirit; from the point of view it's between them. if you reside too much in the mind, then you get too abstract and cut off from the world. You long for the spiritual life, but you can't get to it, and you fall into despair. The exercise of the senses frees you from abstraction and opens the way to transcendence.

There are several methods for introducing your children to driving, and all of them are bad. Probably the worst is to put it off.

Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one.

A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.