Correlation is not cause, it is just a 'music of chance'.

There is this assumption that much of what I write is about my life, and that simply is not true.

Demonstration of mastery gives a feeling of power and that feeling of power is a good feeling.

Men generally do not see women as competition.

Ture stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.

Good books, written by men or women, are ones in which you lose consciousness of the person writing the sentences.

The recollections of an older man are different from those of a younger man. What seemed vital at forty may lose its significance at seventy. We manufacture stories, after all, from the fleeting sensory material that bombards us at every instant, a fragmented series of pictures, conversations, odors, and the touch of things and people. We delete most of it to live with some semblance of order, and the reshuffling of memory goes on until we die.