If I have any advantage, maybe, as a writer, it is that I don't think I'm very interesting. I mean, beginning a novel with the last sentence is a pretty plodding way to spend your life.

A part of adolescence is feelimg that there's no one else around who's enough like youself to understand you.

… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.

I'm not proselytizing my method. I don't believe that one writer should tell other writers how to write.

Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them have no choice in the matter, and you-because you know how to perform them-have no choice, either

Is it a democratic society that condemns people to the accident of conception? What are we-monkeys? If you expect people to be responsible for their children, you have to give them the right to choose whether or not to have children. What are you people thinking of? You're not only crazy! You're ogres!

He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences.