Writing doesn't require drive. It's like saying a chicken has to have drive to lay an egg.

My mother didn't raise me to be a critic, but I seem to have become one anyway.

So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

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

Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.

I would rather be seated between any two women than any two men at a dinner party.

The difference between a childhood and a boyhood must be this: our childhood is what we alone have had; our boyhood is what any boy in our environment would have had.