Sometimes it seemed to him that his life was delicate as a dandelion. One little puff from any direction, and it was blown to bits.
A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.
What I really want to do is to write a hilarious farce.
Trouble can always be borne when it is shared.
It's like the smarter you are, the more things can scare you.
Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.