I think a little menace is fine to have in a story. For one thing, it's good for the circulation.

I’d like to go out in the front yard and shout something. “None of this is worth it!” That’s what I’d like people to hear.

A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.

There was this funny thing of anything could happen now that we realized everything had.

All this, all of this love we're talking about, it would just be a memory. Maybe not even a memory. Am I wrong? Am I way off base? Because I want you to set me straight if you think I'm wrong. I want to know. I mean, I don't know anything, and I'm the first one to admit it.

There's literary creation and literary business. When I first got something accepted, it gave my life a validation it didn't otherwise have.

there isn't enough of anything as long as we live. But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance prevails.