We all want to leave our children the Garden of Eden and we wind up giving them hardscrabble.

I don't think there is a 'gay lifestyle.' I think that's superficial crap, all that talk about gay culture. A couple of restaurants on Castro Street and a couple of magazines do not constitute culture. Michelangelo is culture. Virginia Woolf is culture. So let's don't confuse our terms. Wearing earrings is not culture.

Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.

whoever said progress was a positive thing has never been to Florida or California.

Consider the "new" woman. She's trying to be Pollyanna Borgia, clearly a conflict of interest. She's supposed to be a ruthless winner at work and a bundle of nurturing sweetness at home.

To have meaningful work is a tremendous happiness.

I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.