Writing does not exclude the full life; it demands it.

Lovemaking surely must be, for human beings at our present state of development, one of the more private enterprises. Who would want a witness to that entire self-abandonment and helplessness?

Life is a game of piquet played in a bramble bush in very bad weather.

We are born knowing death.

One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.

There is no such thing as an exact synonym and no such thing as an unmixed motive.

Eventually women will learn there's no such thing as freedom. Their husbands are just as fastened to the deck as they are. Men get onto a treadmill and never got off.