I am always jumping into the sausage grinder and deciding, even before I’m half ground, that I don’t want to be a sausage after all.

It is not easy to be solitary unless you are also born ruthless. Every solitary repudiates someone.

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.

The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate.

The emotion, the ecstasy of love, we all want, but God spare us the responsibility.

If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.