It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war.

Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't trust the person I was in love with one inch.

I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that respect.

Between shame and shamelessness lies the axis upon which we turn; meteorological conditions at both these poles are of the most extreme, ferocious type. Shamelessness, shame: the roots of violence.

When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

Everything has shape, if you look for it. There is no escape from form.

After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.