Like all enjoyable things, you see, it has unenjoyable parts to it.

Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that -- well, lucky you.

Oh, to be a center fielder, a center fielder- and nothing more

I think I write or publish as much as I do because I can bear being without a book to work on.

I came to New York and in only hours, New York did what it does to people: awakened the possibilities. Hope breaks out.

When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.

You go to someone and you think, 'I'll tell him this.' But why? The impulse is that the telling is going to relieve you. And that's why you feel awful later--you've relieved yourself, and if it truly is tragic and awful, it's not better, it's worse---the exhibitionism inherent to a confession has only made the misery worse.