Princeton is quite integrated. Women are professors at Princeton. Women are students at Princeton. That began in the 1970s.

And what is 'art'? - a firestorm rushing through Time, arising from no visible source and conforming to no principles of logic or causality.

Novels usually evolve out of 'character.' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an aesthetic coherence.

I believe that any form of art is a species of exploration and transgression. ... Art by its nature is a transgressive act, and artists must accept being punished for it. The more original and unsettling their art, the more devastating the punishment.

Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents.

Betrayal is the deepest wound. Betrayal is what remains of love, when love has gone.

Nothing comes of so many things, if you have patience.