You lose a wallet or keys or something and you notice in a second, but your life can go missing and you don't even know it.

You can't possibly conduct a proper affair without a lot of deliberating, scheming, speculating, and conniving. It's a delicate balance where the excitement must equal the guilt and sex must be as bright as the future you gamble.

I had begun what I thought might be a career in social work. I was married and deeply involved in the anti-war movement. I thought I'd go about saving the world one person at a time. I worked with kids, teenagers mostly, in neighborhood centers, on the streets, and eventually in a drop-in center.

A lack of narrative structure, as you know, will cause anxiety.

The purpose of the first draft is not to get it right, but to get it written.

Reading honest literature makes you love the world. Knowledge and understanding are love. Reading educates our feelings and enhances our sympathy. When you read for understanding, you are fundamentally changed. You are a different person at the end of the story or the novel than you were when it began.

You lose a wallet or keys or something and you notice in a second, but your life can go missing and you don't even know it.