I used to think it was clever to confuse comedy with tragedy. Now I wish I could distinguish them.
I've always had difficulties with female characters.
Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.
Americans believe that if you know something, you should do something about it.
There is no such thing as a secure writer: every novel is an impossible mountain.
I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end.