It is like having a book out from the library. It is like constantly having a book out from the library.

I don’t go back and look at my early work, because the last time I did, many years ago, it left me cringing. If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write.

I had never feared insomnia before--like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read?

They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.

Don't make your own life your project in your own life: total waste of time.

Perhaps we had at last reached that stage of intimacy that destroys intimacy.

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.