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

I haven't any formal schedule, but I love to write in the morning, before breakfast. Sometimes the writing goes so smoothly that I don't take a break for many hours - and consequently have breakfast at two or three in the afternoon on good days.

Among many of my friends and acquaintances, I seem to be one of the very few individuals who felt or feels no ambivalence about my mother. All my feelings for my mother were positive, very strong and abiding.

I learned long ago that being Lewis Carroll was infinitely more exciting than being Alice.

I turn down invitations to do things for money. I have almost no interest in making money. Actually, I've acquired a fair amount of money that I will never live to spend. So earning money, in a way, depresses me, because I feel it's just piling up.

Like all virtuous people he imagines he must speak the truth.

The novel is the affliction for which only the novel is the cure.