She wasn't in love but she would love him, if that would save her.

Much of my writing is energized by unresolved memories - something like ghosts in the psychological sense.

As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people. At the bottom of every page, I'd put a strange scribble. I was emulating adult handwriting, though I didn't actually know how to write.

It's not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised.

For politics is in its essence as Adams had said, the 'systematic organization of hatred': either you were organized or you were not.

I don't know what marriages are like in general, but there are many things which I don't talk about with my husband. We discuss practical problems, but I wouldn't sit down with him and talk about the distant past. It's somewhat in contrast to other Americans, who feel that they have to confess things, but I'm really not like that.

You are writing for your contemporaries - not for Posterity. If you are lucky, your contemporaries will become Posterity.