Fear comes with middle age.

some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

We all lead more pedestrian lives than we think we do. The boiling of an egg is sometimes more important than the boiling of a love affair in the end.

Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.

There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.

People change and forget to tell each other.