I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.

The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering.

The world that used to nurse us now keeps shouting inane instructions. That's why I ran to the woods.

I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.

I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.

So when I made some money, I didn't have any idea how one handled such a situation because no one in our family ever had any money.

I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that.