I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night.

Every heart is the other heart. Every soul is the other soul. Every face is the other face. The individual is the one illusion.

Life has no beginning, middle or end.

I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of all my works is the search for utopias lost and rediscovered.

I think most people dont like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly dont want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me.

I think there is a rage against women. I've come to see that now although at the time I did not notice it. I was preoccupied with my teaching and my writing.

Dreiser... I love... and almost wouldn't speak to anyone who ever attacked him.