Your boyfriend had a dream about potatoes and you're asking me to interpret it? I'm just old. Being old doesn't mean you know more; it means you ate enough fiber.

Real love is always chaotic. You lose control; you lose perspective. You lose the ability to protect yourself. The greater the love, the greater the chaos. It’s a given and that’s the secret.

Just write about what bites you and damn the rest.

Old people are often impatient, but for what?

It's always fun to walk down the street with or behind a really beautiful woman, for no reason other than to see how the world reacts to them.

Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one.

If I don't feel like writing today or for a few days, I don't. And I don't think about it. It is not an obligation-it is the greatest privilege.