I'm more cautious about what I write.

She felt herself needing more and more sleep. When she awoke in the morning, she thought of when she might lie down again - and when she would sleep. She started going to the movies.

Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.

I love to read the way people love to watch television.

Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it's the secret to good sex.

All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.