Why is it so damn hard for people to talk?

But since I have a poet's weakness for symbols, I am using this character also as a symbol; he is the long-delayed but always expected something that we live for.

There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. It's like nothing else. It's like a love affair, it goes on and on, and doesn't end in marriage. It's all courtship.

Oh, you can't describe someone you're in love with!

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.

At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.