Personally I've never put much store by honesty- I mean how can you trust a word whose first letter you don't even pronounce

A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.

This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic.

I do have people in mind when I write. I don't know precisely who they are, however, or how many of them there are.

I love plays. Even bad ones. I like the fact that actual live, breathing people are standing before you in tense situations that you are not personally responsible for.

Basically, I realized I was living in that awful stage of life between twenty-six to and thirty-seven known as stupidity. It's when you don't know anything, not even as much as you did when you were younger, and you don't even have a philosophy about all the things you don't know, the way you did when you were twenty or would again when you were thirty-eight.

Once love had seemed like magic. Now it seemed like tricks.