When you catch yourself lying to your therapist, you know it's a waste of money.

Everything becomes symbol and irony when you've been betrayed

The only sensible approach is not to take it too seriously. What counts is the writing.

I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them.

The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.

I'm a romantic; you have to be to marry four times.

Most all of the writers I admired when I was in my teens and twenties died young. Fitzgerald lived the longest. He was 44. Dylan Thomas was 39. And then once you're approaching 40, you suddenly think, "Well, maybe I would like to live longer than Fitzgerald or Thomas."