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

I have a very poor record at multiple choice questions.

Lilly was not crazy. She left a serious suicide note. 'Sorry,' said the note. 'Just not big enough.

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

I always thought that you could do worse than find yourself dying in the company of a devoted former student.

(Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action

Kids are beautiful, man. And they know much more than grownups think they know. Kids are just perfect people until grownups get their hands on them.