Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.

I hope that my ideas attract a lively dialogue, even if my sentences are simple. Simple sentences have always served me well. And I don't use semicolons. It's hard to read anyway, especially for high school kids. Also, I avoid irony, too. I don't like people saying one thing and meaning the other.

Freud said he didn't know what women wanted. I know what women want. They want a whole lot of people to talk to.

Just because you can read, write and do a little math, doesn't mean that you're entitled to conquer the universe.

He had supposed for years that he had no secrets from himself. Here was proof that he had a great big secret somewhere inside, and he could not imagine what it was.

My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward.

His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was diseased.