… but only because exhaustion is a life-sign; it is at least a form of being human.

If you can't love crudeness, how can you truly love mankind?

In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us -- not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss.

Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.

Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us.

I'm not at all contemporary, not even modern, and the fact that I would be so quaintly attracted to that wrestling rule makes me, I suppose, seem all the more old-fashioned. I believe in rules of behavior, and I'm quite interested in stories about the consequences of breaking those rules.

The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything.