Loving's pretty easy. It's letting someone love you that's hard.

We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.

Morals are private. Decency is public.

I no longer idolize reason. I have come to accept that ninety percent of what we do is irrational and that we spend what little rational thought we have in justifying our irrationality.

Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.

Nothing is unnatural - just untried.

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