We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.

Try the Lamentations of Jeremiah. They always pick me up.

What baffles me is the comfort people find in the idea that somebody dealt this mess. Blind and meaningless chance seems to me so much more congenial - or at least less horrible. Prove to me that there is a God and I will really begin to despair.

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.

The trouble with treating people as equals is that the first thing you know they may be doing the same thing to you.