I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

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.

We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. It may be the very recognition of all men as our brothers that accounts for the sibling rivalry, and even enmity, we have toward so many of them.

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

What we are assigned to bear is in a sense a measure of our stature.

The writer can only explore the inner space of his characters by perceptively navigating his own.

Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.