She tortured everybody around her, but only because she was more tortured than anyone.

The problem with growing up is that once you're grown up, the people who aren't grown up aren't fun anymore.

There is really no end to life's little humiliations.

I read a lot of literary theory when I was in graduate school, especially about novels, and the best book I ever read about endings was Peter Brooks' 'Reading for the Plot. '

You don't want to move toward some utopian literary situation where everybody's free of all conventions. That's ridiculous! Conventions are what you need. You have nothing to break down if you don't have conventions.

I guess I was raised in a household with a lot of reverence for the physical sanctity of books. You didn't destroy books.

I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began.