I would suggest the widow do things the husband used to do, so he seems to be there with you. You will feel like just going to bed. It's so wonderful, going to bed.

You need so much energy and encouragement to write that if someone says something negative, some of that energy goes.

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

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.

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

Like most people, I can be very easily hurt.

We are stimulated to emotional response, not by works that confirm our sense of the world, but by works that challenge it.