The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking.

I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second.

A personal injustice is stronger motivation than any instinct for philanthropy.

We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.

More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have a talent that's special. It strikes me that I have an unusual kind of stamina.

It was a sound like someone trying not to make a sound.

All I say is: Let us leave les folles alone; let's just leave them be. Don't judge them. You are not superior to them - don't put them down.