My dear boy, please don’t put a label on me—don’t make me a category before you get to know me!

The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life led by human beings; the second was that human beings could survive a life in hotels.

In this world,” Franny once observed, “just as you’re trying to think of yourself as memorable, there is always someone who forgets that that they have met you.

If you feel so strongly about what's on television, don't have one.

My brain is sending poison to my heart.

Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can't even remember having met you

The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.