Human was the music, natural was the static.

Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer.

Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.

Being a famous writer is a little like being a tall dwarf. You're on the edge of normality.

It's a man's world, they say; but in its daily textures it is a world created by and for women.

I write about, more or less, everything I can think of, that is I stretch my imagination as far as it'll go. I am kind of stuck in the middle as far as my life goes, and hence my imagination tends to zero in on things which are indeed in the middle. That is, I don't write about the very rich, who I scarcely know, or the very poor who I don't know very well either.

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.