A good, sympathetic review is always a wonderful surprise.

How mysterious it is, to be in love. For you can be in love with one who knows nothing of you. Perhpas our greatest happinesses spring from such longings-being in love with one who is oblivious of you.

The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last or it won't last; nothing can guarantee it.

For madness must be punished in a world in which mere sanity is prized. The revenge of the ordinary upon the gifted.

Her wish to die was as pervasive as a dial tone: you lift the receiver, it's always there.

Never be ashamed of your subject, and of your passion for your subject.

I don't think I'm morbid by nature. Serious writers have always written about serious subjects. Lighthearted material doesn't appeal to me, and I don't read it. I think I'm a realist, with a realistic sensibility of history and the tragedy of history.