Love asks us that we be a little braver than is comfortable, a little more generous, a little more flexible. It means living on the edge more than we care to.

The art of the novel is to arrive at that artless point where your characters become more real than yourself.

The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.

A high church for the true mediocre.

I am not here only so that the blind might see, but to teach those who thought they could see that they are blind

Great sex is apocalyptic. There is no such thing as great sex unless you have an apocalyptic moment.

Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego.