When I am near the end of a book, I have to sleep in the same room with it.

In terms of work, I never felt that I've done it right. I always want to have done it differently, to have done it better, a different way.

The fear is for what is still to be lost.

It's just a deep pleasure to read something you've written yourself - if and when you like it.

To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.

I was in love with New York. I do not mean 'love' in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and never love anyone quite that way again.

Marriage is memory, marriage is time.