How can the planet keep turning and turning and not get so bored it explodes?

Time is our element, not a mistaken invader.

A few places are especially conducive to inspiration - automobiles, church - public places. I plotted Couples almost entirely in church - little shivers and urgencies I would note down on the program, and carry down to the office Monday.

The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the souls very life.

There's always something new by looking at the same thing over and over.

We're past the age of heroes and hero kings. ... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting.

Musicians are very mysterious and wonderful people to me; I don't know how they do it.