It seems to me that people who don’t learn as easily as others suffer from a kind of learning disability—there is something different about the way they comprehend unfamiliar material—but I fail to see how this disability is improved by psychiatric consultation. What seems to be lacking is a technical ability that those of us called ‘good students’ are born with. Someone should concretely study these skills and teach them. What does a shrink have to do with the process?

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.

Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.

He was one of those people things came easily to, but he did little to demonstrate that he deserved to be gifted.

I begin with an interest in a relationship, a situation, a character.

Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.

We invent what we love and what we fear.