Writing! The activity for which the only adequate bribe is the possibility of suicide, one day.

...[I am] utterly entranced, at times, with the mere fact that there are other people, and that they experience themselves as the primary center of consciousness just as I do. That fact alone...Well, that fact alone is staggering.

I wrote a novel called "Blonde," which is about Norma Jean Baker, who becomes Marilyn Monroe, which I called a fictitious biography. That uses the material as if it were myth - that Marilyn Monroe is like this mythical figure in our culture.

Her problem wasn't she was a dumb blonde, it was she wasn't a blonde and she wasn't dumb.

As soon as I moved to Princeton in 1978, I became fascinated by local history, much of it Revolutionary War-era; and I became fascinated by the presidency of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton University.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

A man will reveal his true self, or so it seems, on the tennis court.