A part of adolescence is feelimg that there's no one else around who's enough like youself to understand you.
They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.
You don't want to be ungenerous toward people who give you prizes, but it is never the social or political message that interests me in a novel. I begin with an interest in a relationship, a situation, a character.
If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.
Our memory is a monster; you forget it - it does not.
I thought some of the stories were neat; I liked some of the liturgy and some of the songs. If you're a writer you have some inclination to pay attention. I didn't just tune it out and think about baseball. So, it had an effect on me.