I'm confused, and brilliant books help me to be less so.

I'm clearer now in what I want to say, and I know better how to say just that.

I don't think anything needs to happen in a book.

Sunday was always the best of days for being the self you had intended to be, but were not, for one reason or another.

That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!

Americans are genuinely and profoundly anti-intellectual. They are especially so in their pleasure-seeking, which is epically banal.

I don't read books for pleasure, but in desperation.