The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.

I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as men. It allows them a lot of freedom they don't have ordinarily.

Sometimes I stumble upon a wonderfully irresistible to me voice, unexpectedly.

The denial of language is a suicidal one and we pay for it with our own lives.

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.

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