Human sexuality makes farcical our most serious intentions.

Adolescence-is it the first time in life we discover that we have something terrible to hide from those who love us?

Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.

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?

There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.

I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it.

Half my life is an act of revision; more than half the act is performed with small changes.