I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents' own rule.

What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman's freedom of choice, too.

I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through our eyes.