The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking.
In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases
No one could have fathomed what a life he'd led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind.
Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't know he was a novelist either.
Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.
Half my life is an act of revision; more than half the act is performed with small changes.