The writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here I am,” but to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here YOU are.

Trouble is said to be good for an artist's soul but almost never is.

If you don't like my book, write your own.

... I distrust manifest knowledge.

England is an aquarium, not a nation.

Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.